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> At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers I feel like there are 3 categories in that idea: 1. mapping lo
by awinter-py 4y ago
> At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers
I feel like there are 3 categories in that idea:
1. mapping local vars to function call (and related, how to feed the output of a function into another function from the same library)
2. coming up with a minimal runnable example of a given function
3. semantic search for which function to use for a task
docs shipped with a library often fail at this, but there are things languages can add to get better at all 3. In particular, syntax for automatically consuming local vars in function calls, and in the package manager, extracting function comments and offering global indexes.