> Given this, why does Copilot write such crappy code? > The reason is because of how language models work. They show how, on average, most people write. They

> Given this, why does Copilot write such crappy code? > The reason is because of how language models work. They show how, on average, most people write. They don’t have any sense of what’s correct or what’s good. Most code on GitHub is (by software standards) pretty old, and (by definition) written by average programmers. Does Copilot apply any project quality filters before training? A small minority of public repos on GitHub are awesome projects that are popular and maintained, while the rest are forgotten experiments, side projects and interview answers.