The Art of Conversation

In the 1990’s when I did my bachelor in computer science, teachers told us that we would be replaced by 4GL languages. Languages in which end-users would describe how applications should work. At that time we laughed at them, saying we saw the exact opposite. Oh dear, we were right. Code became complexer, new concepts arrived on the horizon and software development matured. Fast forward to the 2020’s…

Over the last year, I’ve been giving a lot of GitHub Copilot training sessions world wide. Sessions in which I learned the attendees what GitHub Copilot could mean for them and how they could get the most out of it. In that time I noticed that I was particular a fan of GitHub Copilot chat. A Chat interface in which I could talk to my bestie, asking him all kinds of questions. My bestie would answer my questions as good as possible.