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Episode 533: Eddie Aftandilian on GitHub Copilot

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Is There a Copilot Tool That Can Automatically Repair Code That Don't Compile?

I worked on a system to automatically repair code that didn't compile at Google. I'd be interested in working on this type of thing again in the future. There's literature in this area that I think is pretty convincing. Facebook has a tool called Get-A-Fix that they use and they mine their code reviews for how did people generally address the static analysis warning? They might know a rule out of it and then they shipped that as an auto fix like a suggestion.

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