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- What if we had a smarter way to copy and paste?
As students, programmers, and confused people, we all copy and paste a lot. Unfortunately, the lines that we copy and paste aren’t perfectly made for our applications, they need to be edited to input our own variable names, file locations, and information. But I want products to do the work for me.
Imagine a software engineering taking some code from GitHub or Stack Overflow, and as soon as they paste it into their own, all the information changes for it to seamlessly work in the place it was inserted.
Or what about a writer copying one of their old sentences over, but it automatically switches the tense, pronouns, and prepositions to match what they have currently written.
Doing this would definitely be difficult, and there are a few factors that affect the implementation of a smarter copy-paster. - The format of where it is taken from
To follow tutorials, a simple insert x here would suffice, and would probably be the first iteration of this product. However, to be fully versatile, it should be able to recognize points of change in whatever is taken - The user experience
After figuring out what points need to be changed in the text that is carried over, there are a couple of things that a user could do to input their own things. They could be prompted to select from a range of possible inputs. They could also have to record what they need to input through their clipboard history, however this doesn’t seem helpful at all. The best option is to automatically input whatever needs to be there, but there seems like a lot of room for error in that. - The main technique used in this project would definitely be Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am excited to see if anyone makes this in the future.
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