Hi, I’m Tom.

I’m a dyslexic

computer science student

from Imperial College London,

and I’m currently interning

as a forward deployed

software engineer at Palantir.

I recently built a

pronunciation learning app

with six teammates.

We built over eight weeks,

rotating between code bases

every two weeks

and this presented a problem.

Being dyslexic,

we were writing a lot of code.

I had to then understand

all of the code of the

team from the

previous two week sprint

and that was really hard.

So we’ve just done a rotation.

And now I’m working

on adding more analytics

to the back end.

GitHub Copilot is going to give me this

overview of the entirety

of the analytics backend code base

and I’m specifically going to be working

on the ExerciseAnalyticsDashboard.

I want to know

more about this specifically

so I could ask it

“Could you give me a deeper dive?”

and it will have

a very solid answer

that’ll be able to give me

deep diving into

this specific area

so I can now go

and add whatever

I need to because

being able to explain it to me

both at a high level

and then deep dive

on this specific aspect.

Using GitHub Copilot,

I was able to

quickly move across the code base,

understand what

each of my teammates

had been doing

and this allowed me to,

build more features

on top of that code,

because I was able to query

the code base

in its entirety

and build nicer and

a better user experience

for my end users.