Copilot sells code other people wrote

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by moffkalast on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:31AM (#31848107)

But it kind of is when you think about it. Network weights are just a db written in an incomprehensible format and the synthesis part is searching and converting it back to readable data.

Even if it changes the var names and formatting a bit, it's still at best highly derivative. And at worst it spits out the exact code verbatim.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by tiborsaas on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:57AM (#31848407)

> Network weights are just a db written in an incomprehensible format

That makes all the difference IMHO, its complexity makes it much more than "just a DB". The synthesis part takes into account the context also, so it does intelligent things automatically, a smart SQL query does not.

My brain also works kinda like this. My knowledge is encoded in an incomprehensible format and I convert my knowledge into code based on the problem at hand.

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