What Copilot means for open source

Re:What Copilot means for open source by charcircuit on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:28PM (#31879598)

It's not impossible. Amazon's CodeWhisperer is already able to tell you the license of code if what it generates is close to existing code.

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Re:What Copilot means for open source by treesprite82 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:13PM (#31880761)

What's described as impossible is "[keeping the license] attached to each chunk of code as it wends its way through the model".

Checking generated code for similarity against training set is possible, and is now done by both Copilot and CodeWhisperer. But it'll include code that just happens to be similar, even if that code had no influence on what the model generated.

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Re:What Copilot means for open source by jamal-kumar on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:25PM (#31879898)

I wasn't aware that Amazon was developing something similar, how does it compare in terms of usefulness?

I was finding the copilot trial was pretty good at reading something like an adjacent CSV file and building out a struct with proper data types from the data in it but beyond writing CSV->DB migration stuff I didn't really use it for a lot

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Re:What Copilot means for open source by groovybits on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:38AM (#31895180)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851373

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