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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by pretendscholar on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:03AM (#33242831)
The difference is scale. You will get old and die before you ever even reach 10 percent of the corpus.
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by comex on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:22AM (#33242953)
That only shows that humans are better at learning than machines are right now. I may not have read as much code as Copilot, but I have read quite an amount of it, and it strongly informs the code I write, with respect to style and structure and algorithms. (I don't copy functions verbatim from memory, but neither does Copilot the vast majority of the time.)