Stackoverflow should be afraid.
If you think about it, it's likely that much of the code Copilot is trained on comes from stackoverflow Q/A that made its way into open source GtiHub projects
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#12Another reason to switch from GitHub, I don't want to strengthen this ecosystem. AI-generated description for PR? gg. IMHO it will drastically reduce real productivity for those who will remain on this platform (but still increasing whatever fake metric [accepted pull requests? stars?] people love to check)
>IMHO it will drastically reduce real productivity for those who will remain on this platform
Why do you believe this? Everyone I know who has used copilot has found it made them more productive. Admittedly, reports differ wildly on how much more productive from ~10% to ~100%.
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#13Microsoft really seems to have wrapped up the developer ecosystem with VS Code and the Github acquisition combined with OpenAI. They are going to have an absurd amount of data to optimize their models thanks to that, not sure how other AI focused companies can overcome that
have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be and potentially move away from their ecosystem. Credit to Microsoft's PR team for somehow managing to turn around public opinion about them, it's an all timer
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#14How have people been thinking about licensing and attribution when it comes to using AI code assistance tools like this? In my personal work, I'm avoiding it since being trained on "publicly available code from GitHub" feels too risky for me if I were to say accidentally pull in GPL code to a private project.
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#15With increases in productivity from systems like this, and a guaranteed bottom line improvement from cutting labor and running leaner teams, has anyone here heard of any large corporations using LLM's as an excuse for headcount reduction yet?
In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if this has already played a large behind the scenes role in the layoffs at Google/Microsoft.
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#16Another reason to switch from GitHub, I don't want to strengthen this ecosystem. AI-generated description for PR? gg. IMHO it will drastically reduce real productivity for those who will remain on this platform (but still increasing whatever fake metric [accepted pull requests? stars?] people love to check)
Could you explain your reasoning? You expect that these tools will create more work to get from point A to point B rather than less?
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#17do you see this as a tool to increase productivity in a way that shareholders ask for leaner team or in a way that it creates more demand for products and devs?
One should expect both.
But since the question was asked about shareholders specifically, the guaranteed bottom line improvement is going to come from cutting labor and running leaner teams. That's where large corporations will go first.
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#18God, only yesterday there was a comment by someone, that Copilot will eventually move to gpt4. So eventually = just 1 day. Things move so fast these days.
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#19No JetBrains in the preview :(
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#20How have people been thinking about licensing and attribution when it comes to using AI code assistance tools like this? In my personal work, I'm avoiding it since being trained on "publicly available code from GitHub" feels too risky for me if I were to say accidentally pull in GPL code to a private project.
I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole for this reason.