Can Amazon’s CodeWhisperer Write Better Python than You?

The first record of code completion appears to be in a Pascal editor called Alice back in 1985. It had auto-indent, auto-completion of BEGIN/END control structures and even syntax coloring. Controversy ensued: in the early days of Alice, there was concern that code completion made writing software too easy. But it’s really just a syntactic assistant. Code completion helps you write code that compiles because the syntax is correct but it can’t help you write code that does the right thing or even anything useful.