Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
by rob74 on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:29AM
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Yeah, but... I mean, I guess we all agree that copying code from, let's say StackOverflow without checking if it really does what you want it to do is a bad thing? Now here we have a tool that basically automates that (except it's copying from GitHub, not StackOverflow), and that's supposed to be a good thing? Even if its AI is smarter, you would still have to check the code it suggests, and that can actually be harder than writing it yourself...
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
by ethbr0 on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:50AM
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The big boost, that I think parent is alluding to, is for rusty (not Rust!) languages in the toolbox, where you may not have the standard library and syntax loaded into your working memory.
As a nudge, it's a great idea. As a substitute for vigilance, it's a terrible idea.
I suspect that's why they named it Copilot instead of Autopilot, but it's unfortunately more likely to be used as the latter, humans being humans.