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Early AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot and early ChatGPT, were used as copilots to help software engineers reach solutions.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“so in the early days of software engineering like we have like you know guess”
“GitHub Copilot,”
“then we had early versions of ChatGPT,”
“people were using these things as co-pilots to help them get to their solutions.”Play from 1:17:22Report a misattribution
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