Copilot writes a text-based game in Python 🎱

This morning while at work, I received an email from Github, letting me know that I got access to Copilot’s technical preview. Of course, I immediately dropped everything in order to play with this shiny new toy I just got.

I played with it a little bit in different languages with my friends, trying to create functions over some of our custom classes or structs we made on the fly. Overall, I must say, it’s pretty impressive how it can pick up the surrounding context and write boilerplate code on it (maybe not always fully correct).

Then sometime later in the afternoon, I pulled up an empty python file and just wrote def start(, where copilot picked it from and immediately started writing down print statements, for what it seems to be a simple text-based adventure game. I tab-completed the whole game and it actually ran!

This is just a small experiment seeing how it picked up this specific example from whatever is its (controversial) training set. I recorded the game writing, where all I do is give the original start signature (this was my second attempt, so I gave it def start(self): to nudge copilot into giving me what I had right before) and just pressing tabs.

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