Replit’s Ghostwriter AI can explain programs to you—or help write them

Ghostwriter generates, completes, or transforms code in 16 languages. It works within Replit’s online development environment and resembles GitHub Copilot’s ability to recognize and compose code in various programming languages. When you see a suggestion you like, you can ‘autocomplete’ the code by pressing the Tab key. Replit says that Ghostwriter performs best with JavaScript and Python but supports 16 languages, including C, Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby. It also supports HTML and CSS for web development and SQL for database queries. When using Ghostwriter to autocomplete ‘a console-based snake game,’ it soon got stuck in a weird loop of variables. When using ghostwriter to. autocomcomplete ‘a. snake game’ . . .