How An AI Became My Code Writing Genie

Read the article on Wired here …. (Paywall)

It’s not yet ready for prime time .. but still ….

So, using Visual Studio Code, I wrote a plain ol’ comment describing the first step I needed done:

write a function that opens a pdf document and returns the text 
 For about four seconds, nothing happened. Then Copilot wrote this: 
 def pdf_to_text(filename): 
pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open(filename, “rb”)) 
text = “” 
for i in range(pdf.getNumPages()): 
text += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() 
return text