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Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by scandox »

chaxor wrote: post #519
scandox wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your overall point is reasonable, but to take your point about GUIs...we actually lost an awful lot moving from text based interfaces going to GUI. We got universal adoption and more or less zero training required...but we got very slow and inflexible interfaces.

Command line didn't vanish ... You can still use it. Approximately 90% of my work is done via TUI, so it's certainly not gone.

I'm talking about people behind counters, people in stock rooms, people in all kinds of data entry and so on. The terminal did vanish from many places. We're not the market.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by DeathArrow »

moonchrome wrote: post #619
wysewun wrote: post #459

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Great point. Time to do research on how much GitHub contributes to msft earnings. Really does seem like they’re on the verge of a huge jump

They are bragging about 1m developers on copilot, let's say 20$/m to be generous - that's 20m$/month - they probably have larger single client revenues than that and I doubt copilot is high margin (I bet I spend more than 10$/month in compute by the queries I generate). Unless this goes to hundreds of dollars/month (which I would pay if it was a good experience) I don't see this making a dent.

Maybe they think of waiting until everyone uses Copilot and then jack up the price.

But that wouldn't quite work.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by tough »

smcleod wrote: post #596
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…

I really like copilot, I've used it every day since it was in a closed alpha. Copilot voice however - is hilariously terrible in comparison.

talonvoice.com was developed by a develoepr that needed himself to use the AI voice to code tech

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by DeathArrow »

vlunkr wrote: post #633
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #622

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Based on my own productivity, and how strong the tools seem to be, then I presume current increase in the value is still too very low. These tools would eventually reduce workforce costs by 90% at the very least in my view. To me it seems like most people don't truly understand how things are going to change now.

Maybe when they become much much more sophisticated. Right now they reduce time spent write boilerplate and looking at docs. How much of you overall time is spent on those tasks now? For most devs its not much. Significant time is spent reading code to understand program architecture, investigating bugs caused by obscure edge cases, refactoring or extending functionality without breaking everything. Copilot doesn't e…

It can find bugs, suggest fixes, write tests and do PRs.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by coldtea »

dijit wrote: post #40
erdaniels wrote: post #14

How 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.

Someone asked me to pay for a team subscription for Copilot. As I'm CTO (and thus legally responsible for those agreements that you normally just click through); I read the terms of service, and they do not actually grant license to the code. They say in very clear terms: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING SUGGESTIONS. So, as I don't want to encourage people to think that they can simply copy over copilot solutions I dec…

>* I read the terms of service, and they do not actually grant license to the code. They say in very clear terms: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING SUGGESTIONS.*

That doesn't exactly mean they don't grant licensing in the sense that they retain the license to use the code they produce.

That means there's no licensing, and any issue others have with your code infringing on third party licenses is on you.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by phist_mcgee »

drdrek wrote: post #167

I would love to hear from other people here but I tried it for a while and dropped my subscription. For short things it was nice, but the larger the suggestion the worst it got. I found myself constantly mentally debugging the output it suggested, I do not know if it was faster but I was mentally exhausted by it, unable to go for long periods of time. Dumb code completion is predictable, I know I'll need to press dow…

Copilot for generating TS prop types on react components is fantastic, or guessing the write type for a library object's type.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by DeathArrow »

elil17 wrote: post #45

Yesterday, Copilot could not write a program with SymPy, which is a library for doing symbolic math in Python. (e.g., it would consistently confuse symbols in equations with Python variables). Today it uses SymPy as well as it uses NumPy (occasional mistakes, but overall it has the right idea). Absolutely astounding.

They automatically switched Copilot to GPT 4 without you enrolling in the limited access list?
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