Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs

Re:Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs by cle on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:47AM (#27711470)

I agree, the thought of hoards of developers sending their code to Microsoft (or AWS via CodeGuru) to train their proprietary semantic model is disturbing, because of the potential network effects. They suck right now and have a lot of problems, and I hope they either stay that way, or that something open like this supersedes them.

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Re:Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs by corobo on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:40PM (#27714458)

Hold up. Is everyone talking about this thing as if they're going to use it on proprietary code?

I only ever pictured using it on open source stuff if it turned up decent

If folks are looking at this thing like "that's going right on my work PC" I would highly recommend reviewing your IT usage policy first. Yikes.

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Re:Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs by atatatat on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:52PM (#27714593)

I was thinking the opposite, for the audience you're describing.

"Can't get into trouble if it's never published publicly"...which is wrong, obviously.

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