There's an interesting section that talks about what you want from a pair programmer - questioning your assumptions, spotting errors, debating design with you, etc, and how Copilot doesn't do this, but instead just spits out the code it thinks you want. That made me think that, when using Copilot, the human is actually the copilot. You're the one spotting bugs, picking different designs, and so on.

I also think the discussion around searching versus autocomplete is interesting. What we need is something that autogenerates a Google search based on your code context and shows you some promising results. I'm imagining a pane in VS Code getting populated with Stack Overflow answers whenever I slow down.

Something like the Stackoverflow Importer for Python? https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import