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https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-oft

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-ac... I feel like you're arguing in bad faith. So, whatever.

teakettle42 4y ago
Explaining a fundamental ethical concept you should have learned in primary school when writing your first book reports is not arguing in bad faith. SO’s license requires attribution. If you don’t want to be a plagiarist, you either need to include attribution, or you need to rewrite the solution in entirely your own words.
- ThereIsNoWorry 4y ago
  So, rearranging conditionals or loops or variables then, problem solved. You cannot 1:1 copy paste anyway. That never works. You always have to adapt it to your particularity. So it's "reworded" by default. And CoPilot is doing nothing else. It's not just 1:1 memorising code, it's a tiny bit smarter than that. I strongly believe you're not a developer. Point taken. I understand your considerations. You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem that uses some libraries and see how far you get without consulting the internet or books.
  - teakettle42 4y ago
    > I strongly believe you're not a developer. > You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem There’s a very high chance you posted your comment from a device using code I wrote. Glueing together plagiarized code copied from SO, or stolen from OSS projects on GitHub, is not software engineering.
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  - ilikehurdles 4y ago
    I absolutely attribute things I find on SO to where I found them. You finished college maybe a year ago and are already making some absolute judgments about what makes other people qualified to call themselves developers simply because they don’t develop as you do.
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teakettle42 4y ago

Explaining a fundamental ethical concept you should have learned in primary school when writing your first book reports is not arguing in bad faith. SO’s license requires attribution. If you don’t want to be a plagiarist, you either need to include attribution, or you need to rewrite the solution in entirely your own words.

ThereIsNoWorry 4y ago
So, rearranging conditionals or loops or variables then, problem solved. You cannot 1:1 copy paste anyway. That never works. You always have to adapt it to your particularity. So it's "reworded" by default. And CoPilot is doing nothing else. It's not just 1:1 memorising code, it's a tiny bit smarter than that. I strongly believe you're not a developer. Point taken. I understand your considerations. You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem that uses some libraries and see how far you get without consulting the internet or books.
- teakettle42 4y ago
  > I strongly believe you're not a developer. > You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem There’s a very high chance you posted your comment from a device using code I wrote. Glueing together plagiarized code copied from SO, or stolen from OSS projects on GitHub, is not software engineering.
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- ilikehurdles 4y ago
  I absolutely attribute things I find on SO to where I found them. You finished college maybe a year ago and are already making some absolute judgments about what makes other people qualified to call themselves developers simply because they don’t develop as you do.
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