Right now Copilot is just given the surrounding code, which is obviously limited. I suspect the next big jump will be a model that is given: 1. The surrounding

Right now Copilot is just given the surrounding code, which is obviously limited. I suspect the next big jump will be a model that is given: 1. The surrounding code 2. The type/intellisense information of all the identifiers in the surrounding code 3. The class/function definition of any identifiers in the surrounding code I think #3 will be huge. There is a huge difference in Copilot's performance when dealing with types defined right above where you are writing code, and types defined in some far-away module or library. Right now if you use a class you defined in another file or adjacent project, Copilot can't see it. But your IDE has jump-to-definition functionality that could trivially be wired in to something like Copilot. The team behind Stable Diffusion (the image synthesis model that's been all over HN recently) have said they are working on stuff like Copilot as well, so I expect we will see a huge transformation in this space in the next year or two.