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Using Github Copilot to write a blog post	2021-11-07T16:17:15-06:00	2021-11-08T21:46:39-06:00	true	true	bbaovanc		github-copilot markdown	github-copilot-experiments	name src title feature copilot-blog-post.webp GitHub Copilot helps me write a blog post. name src print-a-news-article print-a-news-article.webp

I found out that GitHub Copilot can write in Markdown, so I decided to get it to write a blog post for me. Here's how I did it.

Preface

I recommend you read my [other blog post about Copilot]({{< ref "/blog/github-copilot-experiments/index.md" >}}) where I showed a bunch of examples of code I generated using Copilot. Near the end of it, I started to experiment asking some questions to it, rather than using it to generate code. That turned out to be a great idea, and led to the creation of this blog post.

Writing English with Copilot

After using Copilot as an encyclopedia, I got an idea. What if I used GitHub Copilot to generate ideas?

{{< figure src="print-a-news-article" >}}

I decided to take it a step further and set the language to Markdown. I started writing out the basic structure of a blog post on my website and let it autocomplete.

{{< figure src="feature" >}}

I'm not quite sure who Kurt A. Smith is, why Copilot chose April Fools 2020 for the date, or why it was so adamant on writing a blog post about itself. What I do know is that I would be able to write a blog post. All I had to do was type a word or two, and Copilot turned it into a couple sentences.

The finished product

The actual blog post written by Copilot is available [here]({{< ref "../copilot-post/" >}}).