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Episode 533: Eddie Aftandilian on GitHub Copilot

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Does Copilot Work?

The way that copilot works, there's an underlying machine learning model. It's related to GPT-3 and is focused on generating code as opposed to natural language. The user can either hit tab to accept it, just like normal auto complete, or they can keep typing to sort of implicitly reject it. We run these models in the cloud, we run them on Azure machines with very powerful GPUs.

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