I guess it’s because modern front-end “development” is mostly about copying huge amounts of pointless boilerplate and slightly modifying it, which LLMs are really good at.
It's moreso that a backend developer can now throw together a frontend and vice-versa without relying on a team member or needing to set aside time to internalize all the necessary concepts to just make that other part of the system work. I imagine even a full-stack developer will find benefits.
Copilot is going to feel "amazing" at helping you quickly work within just about any subject that you're not already an expert in.
Whether or not a general purpose foundation model for coding is trained on more backend or frontend code is largely irrelevant in this specific context.
I’m not sure how this was extended and refined but there are sure a lot of signs of open source code being used heavily (at least early on). It would make sense to test model fit with the web at large.
I guess it’s because modern front-end “development” is mostly about copying huge amounts of pointless boilerplate and slightly modifying it, which LLMs are really good at.
It's moreso that a backend developer can now throw together a frontend and vice-versa without relying on a team member or needing to set aside time to internalize all the necessary concepts to just make that other part of the system work. I imagine even a full-stack developer will find benefits.
So we are all back to be webmasters :)
This has nothing to do with what they asked.
Copilot is going to feel "amazing" at helping you quickly work within just about any subject that you're not already an expert in.
Whether or not a general purpose foundation model for coding is trained on more backend or frontend code is largely irrelevant in this specific context.
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I’m not sure how this was extended and refined but there are sure a lot of signs of open source code being used heavily (at least early on). It would make sense to test model fit with the web at large.