• Previously the R-Cafe
• An informal, community event
• Work on your own code
• Themes with presentations and exercises
• Interaction

https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/programming-cafe

• “Copilot”
• Your AI pair programmer
• Autocomplete for coding

github.com/features/copilot

• OpenAI Codex model
• Modified version of GPT-3
• Trained on text and gigabytes of source code
• e.g. public GitHub repositories
• supports multiple human languages
• works for most programming languages

• small simple tasks
• meaningful function names
• documentation writing
• copilot != autopilot

• security
• ownership
• “GitHub does not own the suggestions GitHub Copilot provides to you.”
• about 1% of the time, a suggestion may contain some code snippets longer than ~150 characters that matches the training set
• additional filter