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Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

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Post by notwhereyouare »

googlryas wrote: post #30
sithlord wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers in the near future?

Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.

I'll admit, every time I hear of repl.it mentioned, I think of the time the CEO threatened the intern. The CEO did a huge disservice to himself and the company that day in my mind

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#32

Post by selykg »

googlryas wrote: post #30
sithlord wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers in the near future?

Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.

This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#33

Post by ChrisKnott »

selykg wrote: post #32
googlryas wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.

This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.

It doesn't seem healthy to care more about this than the people actually involved

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#34

Post by selykg »

ChrisKnott wrote: post #33
selykg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.

It doesn't seem healthy to care more about this than the people actually involved

The CEO's actions are a reflection of the company. I'm not sure I "care more about it" than I am simply aware of their past actions when making decisions on whether to use their product or not.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#35

Post by aryamaan »

I was on beta list used this for golang.

It blew my mind half of the times. It was like it knew what I was going to do.

The other times it was dumber than the standard auto complete. It doesn't have any awareness of already defined variables and doesn't use them to complete halfwritten variables. Hope this gets better soon.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#36

Post by tephra »

giansegato wrote: post #2

replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks

Curious, how large are teams in Replot usually?

To me (programmer in Sweden) the largest single team I've been on was 14 people and that was _very_ large (indeed the largest in the tech department). We actually broke ourselves up into two more informal groups since we thought that was a more manageable team size.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#37

Post by IshKebab »

krono wrote: post #15

> trained on publicly available code Fully respecting the licenses this code was published under, one would hope?

I don't think anyone seriously thinks that is required. The real issue is that these models can reproduce code they've been trained with and then you do need to be aware of the license. That would be fine except as far as I know none of the existing solutions warn you that the code they've produced is the same or very similar to copyrighted code they learnt it from.

That's the main difference from a human learning from copyrighted code (which is totally legal). If they have a good memory they might be able to reproduce copyrighted snippets, but they would usually (probably not always!) know they are doing that.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#38

Post by easrng »

Is this in-browser as in running the model in the browser or is the model running on the server? (I assume it's on the server for size and people-not-ripping-off-your-product reasons, but actually running in the browser would be cool and it doesn't look like it's specified.)

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

#39

Post by ricopags »

easrng wrote: post #38

Is this in-browser as in running the model in the browser or is the model running on the server? (I assume it's on the server for size and people-not-ripping-off-your-product reasons, but actually running in the browser would be cool and it doesn't look like it's specified.)

I am not certain, but my surmise is if in-browser GPT-3 inference was possible it would've made the news. Seems likely to be an API call.

Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI

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Post by deworms »

maep wrote: post #26

If this tool was trained on open source code, what license does the generated code have? At least with Codepilot people were able to generate verbatim GPL code with typos and everything. More importantly, I wonder if companies behind these type of tools offer legal or financial protections in case GPL code sneaks in and leads to expensive law suits.

No they weren't able to generate the same existing code, both because that code is not included anywhere in the model, and because Copilot (not "Codepilot") has safeguards against this kind of situation, should it arise in the highly unlikely situation that a snippet is repeated thousands of times across thousands of repositories.

I've gotta let you know that people copy code snippets from all sorts of codebases with little regard for licenses anyway, because they're toothless in 99% of cases, AI or not. It's a nice illusion that anyone respects licenses, but it's just not true.

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