What's the whole buzz about Salesforce's CodeGen

Towards the end of last month, Salesforce released a large scale language model called CodeGen, which many in the AI community anticipated to be a "Github Copilot killer." While we don't yet know if this is possible until the reviews for CodeGen fly in, it is safe to say that we are in the middle of a paradigm shift in how we interact with our computers. If it was hard to imagine that a user could just develop an app by telling the machine in simple language what the app does, that is exactly what CodeGen does. CodeGen is a leap from code generators like GitHub copilot because its application is even simpler than writing instructions – it is simply talking. Github Copilot, on the other hand, was launched as a tool that autocompletes snippets of code.