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I’m always suspicious of “one engineer did this” projects. There are probably quite a few engineers, product people and other employees who are simply unattribu

by sidlls 4y ago

I’m always suspicious of “one engineer did this” projects. There are probably quite a few engineers, product people and other employees who are simply unattributed for this.

stefan_ 4y ago
Well, the guy that wrote this fibonacci function that the model reproduced verbatim from some "learn to program" site sure went unattributed. That's AI for you.
- ksaj 4y ago
  To try it out, I wrote a Hello World function, and it literally named the tutorial it was taken from. (ie: Hello, Tutorialname!) So it definitely happens often enough, although usually it is probably harder to tell when straight up plagiarism has occurred.
moyix 4y ago
Well, on the FauxPilot side I did do the initial implementation personally (over the course of a few weeks this summer) – but of course I'm building on the work the Salesforce team put into training the CodeGen models, and the work NVIDIA did in creating the FasterTransformer inference library and Triton inference server that FauxPilot uses. I don't know how things are organized within GitLab, but it's pretty plausible to me that one engineer could put together the completion portion of the VSCode extension – you can see the code here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/blob/main/src/completion/gitlab_code_completion_provider.ts https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/blob... Fred has also been providing pull requests to improve FauxPilot, which I very much appreciate! :)
ebonet 4y ago
Another SEG here (our title is Incubation Engineer now, my area is MLOps). It is true that we build on top of what others did. What we mean by single engineer group is that is a one-person-team: we are responsible from the end-to-end project, from defining the vision, to talking to customers, to implementing the solution, and delivering a product. This is a relative new team (a bit more that one year). https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/

by sidlls 4y ago

I’m always suspicious of “one engineer did this” projects. There are probably quite a few engineers, product people and other employees who are simply unattributed for this.

stefan_ 4y ago

Well, the guy that wrote this fibonacci function that the model reproduced verbatim from some "learn to program" site sure went unattributed. That's AI for you.

ksaj 4y ago
To try it out, I wrote a Hello World function, and it literally named the tutorial it was taken from. (ie: Hello, Tutorialname!) So it definitely happens often enough, although usually it is probably harder to tell when straight up plagiarism has occurred.

moyix 4y ago

Well, on the FauxPilot side I did do the initial implementation personally (over the course of a few weeks this summer) – but of course I'm building on the work the Salesforce team put into training the CodeGen models, and the work NVIDIA did in creating the FasterTransformer inference library and Triton inference server that FauxPilot uses. I don't know how things are organized within GitLab, but it's pretty plausible to me that one engineer could put together the completion portion of the VSCode extension – you can see the code here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/blob/main/src/completion/gitlab_code_completion_provider.ts https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/blob... Fred has also been providing pull requests to improve FauxPilot, which I very much appreciate! :)

ebonet 4y ago

Another SEG here (our title is Incubation Engineer now, my area is MLOps). It is true that we build on top of what others did. What we mean by single engineer group is that is a one-person-team: we are responsible from the end-to-end project, from defining the vision, to talking to customers, to implementing the solution, and delivering a product. This is a relative new team (a bit more that one year). https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/