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The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I)

With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity.

Therefore, ChatGPT might generate out of date code relative to the latest API version for something like React (I expect this to be less of a problem as things like OpenAI Search becomes more robust & widely adopted) Coding copilots and agents promise to fix some of these problems via a tighter integration of AI within a development environment, having more context of a specific project, and in some cases, offering radically different user experiences. Therefore, AI code-generation platforms will need to be extremely thoughtful in terms of when they use an LLM’s internal knowledge, and when to consult updated API documentation using RAG ( retrieval augmented generation).

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