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Everything You Need To Know About Github-Copilot

What's This?

  • Github Recently Announced This AI Folk On The Internet Which Helps Programmers To Write Better Code And Will Save The Time And Will Help You Stay Focused [They Said] By The Way It's Only Available For VS Code As Of 22/07/2021.

  • Let's Say That If You Are Building A JSON File In Which You Are Implementing Multiple Music Albums Which You Want To Listen To And Started Coding The Project, Copilot Can Understand The Whole Context Of It And Will Suggest The Code To According To Your Need.

That's How It Works😉

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  • Copilot Will Suggest The Code || Whole Functions Or Methods Based On Your Code[After Analysing]. It'll Suggest The Code When You Start Writing Comments.

  • It Suggests Based On Public repo's Which Are Aviavlbe In The Github, Indirectly You Are Also Contributed To This Folk😉 And Copilot Have Been Trained Billions Of Lines Of Public Code Which Is Powered By OpenAI.

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  • As Of Now, It Performs Well For Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go.

  • This Is Still In Techincal Preview That Means It's Not Available For Everyone As Of 22/07/2021.

Glimpse

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  • Now In Case If You're Thinking That This Is the First Product Which Is Gonna Perform These Things😯, Then You're Wrong My Friend.

  • AI Folks Like Tabnine [Also Known As Codota], Kite, Etc., Are In The Market From Long And Working Pretty Well Till Date.
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  • If You Aren't Active On The Internet For A While Then Let Me Tell You That Copilot Has Much Hype On The Internet From Last Couple Of Days And Faced Much Criticism From All Over The Earth.

Will, You Lost Your Job Now😕?

  • Now, As I Mentioned That It Is Kinda Powerful AI [They Said], Then This Question May Arrive In Your Mind That "Is My Job Gonna Vanish || Can't I Work On Freelancing Project(s) Anymore🙁"

  • And Answer Is Both YES && NO. It Depends Upon You Though.

Case-1

YES, Your Job May Vanish:

  • If You Are Human Who Just Copies The Code From Stackoverflow Or Other Platforms Without Even Knowing What Does That Do

OR

  • If You Are A Human Who Just Takes The Template And Just Edit Those Minor Parameters/Arguments And Call Yourself As Developer Then,

  • YES Your JOB May Vanish.

Case-2

NO, Nothing Gonna Happen. Go And Fix Those Hecking Bugs || Errors And Make Your Product Great Which You Do Regularly.

  • If You Are Developer Who Can Build Logic Even It May Be 10% Only Without Depending Upon Stackoverflow||Other Platforms every time, And If You Can Build Your Imagination [Even It May Take Time] Into Real With The Help Of Tools Which You Required Then,

  • This Copilot Folk Still Is An AutoComplete Feature For You Even If It's An AI.

  • Your Job || Freelancing Stuff Will Be Same As You Do Today. No Worries At All [Start Fixing Those Errors || Bugs😅].

Still Worried🤔, Then This Is For You:

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At Last

Point Is, You Are Fine. Don't Worry. Stay On Your Path And Keep Doing Amazing Things! - Danny Thompson

  • Well, That's All For Now🙌

Bye🤗

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