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The weird thing about CoPilot to me is that all the examples seem like bad examples: I don’t want my team writing new functions to count the bits in an int; I want them to call the function to count the bits. The real potential of CoPilot would be if GitHub uses it to design libraries for various languages that do the things people keep wanting done. Imagine if instead of autocompleting the body of `std::size_t count_bits(int)`, it would suggest “Try `#include <GitHubLib/BitTwiddling.h>` and call `GitHubLib::count_bits`.”



that's a great feature suggestion, it can be a lot of work to discover and vet libraries to use




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