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From an end user perspective, CoPilot has made my coding life dramatically better than any other tool I think I've ever used. The next closest being a good IDE
by ohashi 4y ago
From an end user perspective, CoPilot has made my coding life dramatically better than any other tool I think I've ever used. The next closest being a good IDE which added code completion, documentation for functions, etc.
What it's functionally doing is incredibly valuable and I want to see it succeed. Figuring out how to navigate licensing effectively is an important step, but as someone who writes open source, I am happy my code is helping potentially make other people's code better too.
- ogarten 4y agoThe problem is, that it's not only open source but also private repositories on GitHub which aren't open source and might never be.
- throwaway675309 4y agoThat's not their stated position, obviously it's hard to verify but from there official stance: "GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI. It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub."
- BerislavLopac 4y agoA repository being public does not mean that it's open source.