The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 10:37 AM UTC

maccard wrote: post #98

corobo wrote: post #87

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Until a court decides what it does and doesn't do I'm staying clear Here's it outputting Quake code, including handy comments it came up with for each line and even an entire line of commented out code. Maybe it decided it was a good choice to comment it out but still include it I guess Being word for word from the original is just a weird coincidence too I truly wanted it to be as good as it was sold to us too, but…

It didn't copy the entire file for quake - it got the license wrong (which is even worse!) That what I said in my original comment!

Post by corobo » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 10:39 AM UTC

maccard wrote: post #98

corobo wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until a court decides what it does and doesn't do I'm staying clear Here's it outputting Quake code, including handy comments it came up with for each line and even an entire line of commented out code. Maybe it decided it was a good choice to comment it out but still include it I guess Being word for word from the original is just a weird coincidence too I truly wanted it to be as good as it was sold to us too, but…

It didn't copy the entire file for quake - it got the license wrong (which is even worse!) That what I said in my original comment!

Post by megous » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 10:43 AM UTC

nicetryguy wrote: post #3

Is === really necessary for Javascript? Type checking seems like overkill?

Post by cf499 » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 10:54 AM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #8

> Can help you with Email Validation and API Calls It generates a nastily complex regular expression that is hopelessly wrong. Visible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pw-Roo_duE&t=404 , here transcribed: /^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/ For the local part, it requires [\w-\.]+, which excludes many valid characters like everyone’s favourite, +.…

Post by tluyben2 » Mon, Jul 05, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #82

ZiiS wrote: post #69

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Isn't "Code you don't understand" the definition of AI/ML?

Zing! But well, depends on the algorithm. Some aren't that complicated to understand, like linear regression. Others, like DNN are basically impossible. But with ML you're at least always testing the code you don't understand in the process of training the parameters. That's better than the minimum effort when using copilot code. And many will just make that minimum effort and release untested code they don't underst…