About whether Copilot's text-based approach can lead to general program synthesis.
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Yes 67 (54%)Not sure 27 (22%)No 31 (25%)
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About whether Copilot's text-based approach can lead to general program synthesis.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
To be clear I wasn’t dismissing anything, that was not my intent. I think as a programmer assist text based approaches work and I really like copilot for what it is.
I was merely saying that for the holy grail, program synthesis from informal spec generalised to any domain, the approach will have to be different.