Lazy programming artifact: Copilot

Copilot is a programming artifact from Microsoft github, a tool based on big data + machine learning. It can now be installed on Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Copilot is amazing, it seems to know what code or comments I am going to type next. Even if I type a comment, it knows what I want to write, and after writing the comment, it prompts me whether the code should be written in this way. Really lazy programming assistant.

Don’t even write anything, create a filename and guess what I’m doing.

You can brush the question, write a Two Sum , auto-completion algorithm, Copy/Paste submission and one-time pass.

I feel that this Copilot can greatly improve the efficiency of work, such as some uncommon syntax, operating the database or even writing a piece of code for you, and it can infer the code you want to write next according to the context. Pressing the Tab key automatically completes, and writing code becomes more enjoyable.

Recently, when I write C# code, I need to operate some Service Bus, MySQL , often after writing comments, the code is there. Also, if you want to write a comment, just type //. Also, Copilot can automatically write complete SQL statements for you, which is quite powerful.

A lot of things that require Google/ Stackoverflow are no longer needed, this Copilot helper helps you look up and automatically completes it based on your current code.

I feel that in the future, the machine will slowly replace the code farmer (moving bricks) who can only copy/paste. After all, what do you need to do with the code that AI machines can write.