Re:Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs
by flurie on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:30AM
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The author had a rather colorful post to /r/emacs that has been edited significantly since, but some of the color remains in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/oapa2l/help_building...
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Some of the comments almost seem like the author is using GPT for lots of things.
And seems to be praising GPT/Copilot as being amazing, the future, etc? Though with so many deleted comments i'm still quite confused.
Regardless the author and I disagree strongly about the actual usefulness of Copilot. I do think ML could be a huge boon for many human applications, like coding, but it's far far from it. Furthermore Copilot's specific implementation seems to leave much to be desired[1].
To me ML is an infant right now and we're metaphorically and literally expecting that infant to drive a car. ML is in a weird, weird place.
[1]: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
Re:Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs
by michaelmrose on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:59PM
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If he is wrong and such tools are of small import then it isn't highly important that Emacs has such functionality. If he is correct and such functionality is essential then all of existing Emacs becomes merely a freemium teaser for Emacs 2021 Professional Edition with AI where they will provide only a fraction of the total value but collect most of the money from the ecosystem.
Worse its not even a license forever, nor even for a period of time. It's priced by the word.