Guido van Rossum

And how many times...

Are you looking for like, oh, what was I doing this morning?

I was looking for a begin marker and I was looking for an end marker.

And so begin is blah, blah, blah, search for begin.

This is the begin token.

And then the next line I type E and it completes the whole line with end instead of begin.

That's a very simple example.

Sometimes it sort of...

If I name my function right, it writes a five or 10 line function.

It doesn't save me a lot of thinking, but since I'm a poor typist, I'm very much appreciative of all the typing it does for me.

much better actually than the previous generation of suggestions that are also still built in VS Code, where when you hit like a dot,

It tries to guess what the type is of the variable to the left of the dot, and then it gives you a list, a pop-down menu of what the attributes of that object are.

But Copilot is much, much smoother than that.

Are programmers jobs threatened by the existence of Stack Overflow?

I don't think so.

It helps you take care of the boring stuff.

And you shouldn't try to use it to do something that you have no way of understanding what you're doing yet.

A tool like that is always best when the question you're asking is, please remind me of how I do this, which I could look up how to do it, but right now I've forgotten whether the method is called foo or bar or what the shape of the API is.

Does it use a builder object or a constructor or a factory or whatever?

something else, and what are the parameters, it serves that role.