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Visual Studio recently augmented tab completion with an AI based system to suggest small parts of code.

Although it's impressive, the suggestions are so frequently wrong that I doubt AI will be able to write code as good as a human during either of our careers.

Instead, AI will merely become another tool in our toolbelt that helps us in our day-to-day jobs.

Someone reverse engineered copilot and found that it was using the weaker faster OpenAI coding model. So they are not using code-davinci-002 or text-davinci-003 both of which are better at code generation.

Also several groups including OpenAI are racing to advance the state of the art in text (and code) generation. We should anticipate better models being available within the next year or so. In fact I believe some papers within the month or so are an improved SOTA in their contexts.

Try the Codex Playground stuff on the OpenAI site.

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