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Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by intelVISA »

czbond wrote: post #307
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While we have seem some huge leaps in AI, robotics is still far behind human capability. Things like food preparation are not anywhere close to being feasible right now. So perhaps in the medium future humans will be "stuck" doing only physical tasks, while AIs take over everything that can be done virtually.

There is a display at Meow Wolf (absurdist immersive art experience) which paraphrased is "Thinking is for machines, labor is for humans". May turn to be true...

I'll reply to this once GPT4 provides a thought for me to borrow.

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Post by someguyformdn »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #119
w-m wrote: post #33

I tried getting myself on the CLI waitlist ( https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli/ ). That they use ffmpeg as the example hits a huge pain point for me. But: "Next Waitlist by GitHub Next would like permission to: Act on your behalf Not owned or operated by GitHub" Why does signing up for a waitlist require me to give permissions to an app to act in my account? An app that isn't even officially from GitHub? Th…

It’s officially from GitHub. There is some weird language (that I’ll absolutely pass feedback on to the team), I think because GitHub Next is a different organization from GitHub proper, but I can assure you, this is an official GitHub app. But I totally agree that this isn’t a great/clear message about where this is from.

Did you actually pay for or license MDN for the database that you are building off of and selling your "product"? YOU ARE A BUNCH OF THIEVES. People haave been working on contributing to the MDN brandand the docs since at least 1995.

```We’re starting with documentation for React, Azure Docs, and MDN, so we can learn and iterate quickly with the developers and users of these projects.```

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by cess11 »

joeyh wrote: post #426
cess11 wrote: post #383

Why participate in the hype? It's highly likely this is the result of legal having mulled over the Copilot litigation and deciding that it can go either way or worse, so the top layer in MICROS~1 has decided to rush whatever product development they can use the general public for and try to hook as many people as they can to their stochastic parrots. Which they wish to insert into not just every other government mach…

To the extent of claiming that "GitHub Copilot is already writing 46% of code". It smacks of desperation to lie so baldly with statistics.

Yeah, it reeks, makes me think of the "it's afraid scene" in a well known movie.

As for the productivity increase some claim it can bring, I'm not so sure. The software doesn't know your style guidelines until you give them away. Maybe it can help in some marginal cases, cough up some XML there is no longer official tooling for generating or whatever. If you don't have snippets and IDE support for boilerplate you're doing development wrong and should start looking into techniques for code generation in your stack.

For any non-trivial application design you really want to know what your inspiration is and what it's used for, so you can judge the context of the code you take inspiration from and can cull the parts you don't need and adapt to your particular situation.

And typically code output is more about learning the problem domain deeply and doing code reviews. If one spends more time writing stuff that doesn't need thinking than doing reviews and study there's an obvious need for automation and code generation, and one probably ought to think more about how to make one's contributions more efficiently.

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Post by visarga »

> A ChatGPT-like experience in your editor with GitHub Copilot Chat: We are bringing a chat interface to the editor that’s focused on developer scenarios and natively integrates with VS Code and Visual Studio. This does far more than suggest code. GitHub Copilot Chat is not just a chat window. It recognizes what code a developer has typed, what error messages are shown, and it’s deeply embedded into the IDE. A developer can get in-depth analysis and explanations of what code blocks are intended to do, generate unit tests, and even get proposed fixes to bugs.

This is what I am excited about - seeing its errors and other things it needs in order to accomplish tasks. Can't wait to see it in action.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by 2gremlin181 »

jghn wrote: post #142
vintermann wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, as long as my employers don't care (they don't), I don't care. I have no illusions that my code/our code will give Microsoft any valuable training data it couldn't trivially get elsewhere.

Mine does, and therein lies my issue.

IMO Copilot for Business has a very reasonable data collection policy. They discard any code snippets once the suggestion is returned.

https://github.com/features/copilot

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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gzer0 wrote: post #169

There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…

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Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by rvz »

pastor_bob wrote: post #393
gzer0 wrote: post #169

There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…

$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

> BRB buying some MSFT

No.

Tell me you buy the hype and on high impact macro-economic news like FOMC and lose more money due to volatility without telling me.

Almost everyone here knew GPT-4 will release soon, months ago in advance and you now decide to 'buy' MSFT as soon as it goes up to $277?

The market really does get retail FOMO'ing in stocks with the hype and it just never ceases to surprise me that it happens here too.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by csantini »

pastor_bob wrote: post #393
gzer0 wrote: post #169

There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…

$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

If you want it cheaper: https://how2terminal.com

This is when I build a product and then Microsoft releases it three weeks later -_-

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