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Feels fallacious ? Most good developers I personally know, when doing code, tend to think about the problem at hand, establish the logic of how they want to sol
by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Feels fallacious ? Most good developers I personally know, when doing code, tend to think about the problem at hand, establish the logic of how they want to solve it, and then implement the solution. They rarely try to do this by doing pattern-hunting & merge on a mountain of code from similar projects.
- Filligree 4y agoWhy do you assume copilot is doing the latter? The training data doesn’t exist at runtime, and if the developers are competent then it only learned a bit or two from each input snippet. So, though even though it’s certainly a highly capable compression algorithm, verbatim copies shouldn’t be… possible. My best guess for this bug is that a lot of already plagiarised the code. AI has a habit of holding up a mirror to humanity. Sometimes we don’t like what we see.