About whether AI coding assistants like Copilot work beyond simple, context-free functions.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI coding assistants like Copilot work beyond simple, context-free functions.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
That is in fact the elephant in the room: you will most likely never be able to actually use it for complex stuff because of the token limits required for ai.
Imagine analyzing a massive code base, sure it can tell you how you where solving function ex by translating it to natural language, but it still does not understand any of it.
As far as i know, training it on your dataset will not improve this.