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Don't open source your code then.
Open Source has licenses that must be followed. Copilot strips those off and ignores them.
Clearly it's not as simple as you imagine.
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Yesterday, I was disgusted to see framers putting up a house that clearly plagiarized the entire internal structure of my own. Same joint interfaces, same structural idioms when dealing with things like staircases, windows, and rafters, same fasteners, same adhesives, even the building materials! Aside from the most general aspects of the layout, it was exactly the same right down to the inch! People have no professi…
That analogy only works if you designed/architected your own house.
I have a few questions about copilot. I haven’t gotten a chance to use it yet. Is it irrational that this makes me a little anxious about job security over the longterm? Idk why but this was my initial reaction when learning about this. Given the scenario where copilot and its likes becomes used in a widespread manner. Can it be argued that this might improve productivity but stifle innovation? Im pretty early in my…
I have a few questions about copilot. I haven’t gotten a chance to use it yet. Is it irrational that this makes me a little anxious about job security over the longterm? Idk why but this was my initial reaction when learning about this. Given the scenario where copilot and its likes becomes used in a widespread manner. Can it be argued that this might improve productivity but stifle innovation? Im pretty early in my…
In the 50s, we programmed computers with punch cards. Who does now? How many web developers today could tell the difference between `malloc` and `calloc`? Probably not that many.
For a lot of developers, programming today bears very little relation to programming decades ago. Copilot is like any other innovation - it obsoletes some skills, and it introduces new ones.
I doubt copilot will reduce the need for engineers: but it may change the work they do. But that's no different to any other industry.
Copilot is crazy. The other day, I was writing a Python function that would call a Wikipedia API. I pulled from the internet an example of a GET request, and pasted it as a comment in my code. # sample call: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=geosearch&gscoord=37.7891838%7C-122.4033522&gsradius=10000&gslimit=100 Then I defined a variable, base_url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?"…
Bit of a dodgy way to form query parameters though. Other than for a quick script.
Or did you mean something else?
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Your response makes me wonder if poisoning the well is possible by submitting code to Github with multiple languages and coding styles. A single file with a function signature written in Javascript and the body written in Python + Ruby. Enough code would surely break the AI model behind it. Unless Copilot has some sort of ingestion validation which wouldn’t surprise.
Probably but you would have to submit an absurdly large amount of code to make a dent. Practically unreasonable considering their training corpus is also increasing per lines of public code submitted on github. So not only would you have to submit a insanely large amount of code but you're also racing against literally millions of users writing legitimate code at any period of time.
Good, I was getting really tired of subtly plagiarizing by hand.
Which I think was fairly predictable.
What wasn't predictable was that someone would ship this Copilot anyway, consequently exposing their company and their users' companies to liability.
Imagine if you hired an intern who was copy&pasting bits of GPL'd code throughout your system. This would not be a good job, it would be something that needed immediate attention from legal counsel and others, and mean reverting every commit the intern from heck made if you couldn't prove convincingly it wasn't tainted. Especially if you're a startup, who needs to assure investor due diligence in good faith that you actually own the IP.
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Yesterday, I was disgusted to see framers putting up a house that clearly plagiarized the entire internal structure of my own. Same joint interfaces, same structural idioms when dealing with things like staircases, windows, and rafters, same fasteners, same adhesives, even the building materials! Aside from the most general aspects of the layout, it was exactly the same right down to the inch! People have no professi…
That analogy only works if you designed/architected your own house.
Copilot is crazy. The other day, I was writing a Python function that would call a Wikipedia API. I pulled from the internet an example of a GET request, and pasted it as a comment in my code. # sample call: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=geosearch&gscoord=37.7891838%7C-122.4033522&gsradius=10000&gslimit=100 Then I defined a variable, base_url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?"…
Remember it doesn't actually know an API or how it should be used: it's putting things together to look like typical code. For me that has meant difficult to spot bugs like linking up incorrect variables from the rest of my code.
I wish it could integrate the first SO answer to a generated question, because I always end up there anyway having to fix things.