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Yeah, I don't get the hate. I've been using copilot since the release and it's pretty handy. It ain't god's gift to this earth yet, but it's pretty useful for b
by xeromal 5y ago
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I've been using copilot since the release and it's pretty handy. It ain't god's gift to this earth yet, but it's pretty useful for boilerplate scenarios.
- rectang 5y agoGithub Copilot violates the licenses of the open source code that it uses as its source material. I, for one, am pissed off about that. If you don't care about those authors, or don't care about copyright in general, or you agree with Microsoft's sketchy reasoning that copyright violation never occurs in Github Copilot (even though Github Copilot is perfectly capable of regurgitating big verbatim chunks of code from its training corpus)... then you won't get the hate.
- gowld 5y ago> Github Copilot violates the licenses Not even the FSF had made that claim yet. They are still in research mode: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-whit... https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white... The latest conclusions so far: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications-of-the-use-of-code-repositories-to-train-a-machine-learning-model https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications... "Copilot and its developer-customers likely do not infringe developers’ copyrights."
- user3939382 5y agoI find it takes me more time to evaluate and correct its suggestions than to just write the code using regular IDE autocomplete.
- xeromal 5y agoI use VS code which doesn't really have great IDE autocomplete. I'll agree with you when it comes to a proper IDE though or if you use a quality JetBrains product!