Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "ArjanCodes" channel.

  1. I think the biggest missing feature for Copilot is not being able to give it enough information about the project. Especially with Copilot for Business where the Copilot/GitHub will not use any of the data for training so it cannot get better without access to actual data and source code in your project. If it were able to automatically read the documentation files (in Markdown) in the same Git repo, that would be a good start in addition to reading through all the existing code in the codebase. This gets even more important when you try to use Copilot to maintain existing codebase with a long history. In an ideal world, Copilot would read through the whole history of your project (the project I'm currently working with has 12000+ commits and most of the commits have a lot of valuable information in the commit messages) to be able to output better responses.
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  2. Programming is basically about writing accurate enough description of the project you want. The no-code movement pretends that you don't need to write the description. Imagine any complex task: if you were to explain to another developer what you want, would you want to use mouse and click icons or write a description using some language (be it English, Python or C++)? The need for the communication is not going to go away no matter how much you want to use no-code movement. Currently programming languages are used because programming languages allow for accurate communication unlike e.g. English which is good for hand-wavy stuff.
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