{"id":11834,"date":"2022-07-03T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1388937"},"modified":"2022-07-03T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T13:00:28","slug":"individual-devs-can-now-use-githubs-copilot-ai-assistant-will-i-be-out-of-a-job-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=11834","title":{"rendered":"Individual devs can now use Github\u2019s Copilot \u2018AI assistant\u2019 \u2014 will I be out of a job soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love writing code to make things: apps, websites, charts, and even music<\/a>. It\u2019s a skill I\u2019ve worked hard at for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

So I must confess last week\u2019s news <\/a>about the release of a new \u201cAI assistant\u201d coding helper called GitHub Copilot<\/a> gave me complicated feelings.<\/p>\n

Copilot, which spits out code to order based on \u201cplain English\u201d descriptions, is a remarkable tool. But is it about to put coders like me out of a job?<\/p>\n

Trained on billions of lines of human code<\/h2>\n
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GitHub<\/a> (now owned by Microsoft<\/a>) is a collaboration platform and social network for developers<\/a>. You can think of it as something like a cross between Dropbox and Instagram, used by everyone from individual hobbyists to highly paid software engineers at big tech companies.<\/p>\n

Over the past decade or so, GitHub\u2019s users have uploaded tens of billions of lines of code for more than 200 million apps. That\u2019s a lot of if<\/code>s and for<\/code>s andprint(\"hello world\")<\/code> statements.<\/p>\n

The Copilot AI<\/a> works like many other machine learning tools: it was \u201ctrained\u201d by scanning through and looking for patterns in those tens of billions of lines of code written and uploaded by members of GitHub\u2019s coder community.<\/p>\n

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