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Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by JohnAaronNelson »

Aeolun wrote: post #396
JohnAaronNelson wrote: post #260

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Have you used it? My experience was quite atrocious. Copilot is not auto complete. It’s nonsense. I attempted to use it continuously for three weeks. I tried because I know someone who built it and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. It never prompted me with any code that was useful. It only ever slowed me down and caused me frustration. It’s nothing like Intellisense. It’s just trash.

Try tabnine? It doesn’t generate so much nonsense because it’s all generated based on only your own codebase.

Tried it a bit. Not useful for me.

Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by JohnAaronNelson »

FinalBriefing wrote: post #295
JohnAaronNelson wrote: post #260

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Have you used it? My experience was quite atrocious. Copilot is not auto complete. It’s nonsense. I attempted to use it continuously for three weeks. I tried because I know someone who built it and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. It never prompted me with any code that was useful. It only ever slowed me down and caused me frustration. It’s nothing like Intellisense. It’s just trash.

It's helped me out quite a bit. When I'm writing Angular code, it often fills in the correct boilerplate code, and is especially helpful when writing unit tests. I'm also quite surprised when it autocomplete various filter functions. It isn't perfect, but it's been helpful filling in the mundane, simple stuff.

Sorry to tell you, but if you’re constantly, or even regularly, writing this much boilerplate code, then you probably need to change how you write code. Maybe try a different framework.

Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by JohnAaronNelson »

baby wrote: post #290
JohnAaronNelson wrote: post #260

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Have you used it? My experience was quite atrocious. Copilot is not auto complete. It’s nonsense. I attempted to use it continuously for three weeks. I tried because I know someone who built it and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. It never prompted me with any code that was useful. It only ever slowed me down and caused me frustration. It’s nothing like Intellisense. It’s just trash.

I pretty much use it every day at this point and I notice when it is disabled. > It’s just trash I have a hard time relating to this kind of experience considering how useful it has been for me. What language are you writing in btw? When I use it for OCaml it's not that useful, perhaps because there isn't as much OCaml code to learn from :D

A lot of TS React or Node

Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by zvr »

abalaji wrote: post #236
bastardoperator wrote: post #192

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Wait til stackoverflow sues everyone into oblivion! Letting your intern blindly commit to your code base seems like the bigger issue here. The entire purpose of an internship is to learn and to be guided by professionals, not to be treated as a cheap laborer. You don't hire interns, you train interns. Have you used copilot or are you speculating?

Stackoverflow content is generally creative commons not GPL unless I'm missing something. ( https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing )

CC-BY-SA, so Share-Alike; you have to share the derivative work produced (source code, in this case).

Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by snvzz »

baby wrote: post #356
snvzz wrote: post #334

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It's not black and white. Letting people see the code doesn't mean they can ignore the license and do whatever the hell they want with it. I am quite reasonable. I favor the MIT license. I still do not want my code in Copilot, which pretty much dismisses my rights entirely.

I’m not sure I understand that point of view though. Copilot just suggests relatively short snippets, it’s not copying large chunks of your library or products. If you truly have an innovative algorithm and you don’t want people to use it like that, you’ll have to go the patent route

Letting me (and everybody else who doesn't want to be part of copilot) opt out is not, by any stretch, unreasonable.

It is basic human decency, and copilot would still be possible even if some of us opted our projects out.

Re: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

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Post by treesprite82 »

ghoward wrote: post #427
treesprite82 wrote: post #421

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> Where did it come from then? And what license did the original have? From what I read, the code has been altered and iterated on as it was passed down. The magic number constant is claimed to have been derived by Cleve Moler and Gregory Walsh. > If the original was GPL or proprietary, then all of this copies with different licenses are violating the license of the original. Just because it exists everywhere does no…

> GitHub's intention isn't for Copilot to hold the code's copyright, but for the user to. That is true, so I have two things I can do: 1) I can argue that Copilot is actually the distributor of the code, which means Copilot is infringing, or 2) I can go after the user for infringing, and if I win, that user would not want to use Copilot anymore for liability reasons. Or they could go after Microsoft themselves. Why n…

I got access to Copilot technical preview earlier today, here's the completion you wanted to try:

    // Computes the index of them item.
    map_index(int item, int *array, int size)
    {
     int i;
     for (i = 0; i
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