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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Using the AST to Do a Small Scale Autocomplete

GitHub co-pilot is a tool that lets users edit code by hitting keys. It was originally designed to do simple small scale autocomplete with the large models. The UI for that wasn't good, so they tried using IntelliSense drop down and other tools. They then used cursor position in AST to figure out heuristically whether you're at the beginning of a block or not. Now it's improved dramatically since then.

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