Pair programming with an AI copilot

Rich James/20 August 2022/1 min readView on LinkedIn

A new kind of teammate: an AI node connected to a network of collaborating agents.

Developers might find this video funny, but the underlying point stands: pairing with an AI coding assistant is genuinely that good.

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