Austin Z. Henley I work on software. 2/4/2024 This post is an informal summary of our paper, "Building Your Own Product Copilot: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs". See the preprint for more details. Thanks to my collaborators at Microsoft: Chris Parnin, Gustavo Soares, Rahul Pandita, Jessica Rich, and Sumit Gulwani. Companies everywhere are launching copilots—AI assistants that leverage LLMs to assist with tasks. For example, Office Copilot helps you with Word and Excel, GitHub Copilot helps...