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GitHub Copilot may suggest old or deprecated uses of libraries and languages This raises two questions. - is there a way (right now or planned for the future)
by onion2k 5y ago
GitHub Copilot may suggest old or deprecated uses of libraries and languages
This raises two questions.
- is there a way (right now or planned for the future) for library maintainers to mark suggestions to be removed from the suggestions? I can foresee Copilot being used as a source of 'truth' among less experienced developers, and getting people turning up in the Issues or Discord asking why the suggestion doesn't work might be a bit jarring if the maintainers have to argue that "Github was wrong."
- if a library is hosted on Github is there a way to mark some examples as Copilot training data? Maybe by having a 'gh-copilot' branch in the repo that represents high quality, known-good examples of usage?
- mcintyre1994 5y agoI'd be pretty worried about this based on how many times an SO question has new better answers months/years later. I find that platform self-corrects reasonably well, with the newer better answer ending up at the top, but no idea how that'd happen here.
- tomaskafka 5y ago> I find that platform self-corrects reasonably well, with the newer better answer ending up at the top, but no idea how that'd happen here. I don't. Very often I run into an outdated accepted response with much better and more recent replies below it.