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So you’re telling me if one writes a plug-in that integrates with source control checkins and provides these summaries plus an additional terser summary to nont

So you’re telling me if one writes a plug-in that integrates with source control checkins and provides these summaries plus an additional terser summary to nontechnical users, I wonder if companies would buy that?

jrochkind1 4y ago
Makes sense to me. Add things like "summary of what each contributor did each week/month" at various levels of detail. There is an evil and a less evil way to deploy this of course. I have had jobs where I had to provide monthly summaries of what I did this month. I would like to start with a chatgpt summary of all my commits and/or PR's over the month, before editing it, why not?
rodgerd 4y ago
I mean Elon Musk would.
cmeacham98 4y ago
The obvious problem with this is that you'd be sending all your (presumably proprietary) source code directly to ChatGPT, i.e. OpenAI, i.e. Microsoft, with a dubiously vague license to use it to improve the ChatGPT product. I can't think of a single company I or someone I know has worked at that has a security department/person that would allow this. Maybe very small businesses wouldn't care that much?
- nickpeterson 4y ago
  Obfuscate the code, send to ChatGPT, then find replace the strange names in the summary with the normal ones ;)
- MikePlacid 4y ago
  I absolutely do not envy any team who would steal our source code. No, it’s not bad and is rather self-documented, but the amount is huge and it’s all inter-connected. What use can they extract from it?
- nl 4y ago
  > I can't think of a single company I or someone I know has worked at that has a security department/person that would allow this. Maybe very small businesses wouldn't care that much? Well there are lots of open source companies where this isn't a concern. Even outside that lots of businesses use GitHub as a code repository just fine, and the GitHub tools can read your code to eg scan for security vulnerabilities.

jrochkind1 4y ago

Makes sense to me. Add things like "summary of what each contributor did each week/month" at various levels of detail. There is an evil and a less evil way to deploy this of course. I have had jobs where I had to provide monthly summaries of what I did this month. I would like to start with a chatgpt summary of all my commits and/or PR's over the month, before editing it, why not?

rodgerd 4y ago

I mean Elon Musk would.

cmeacham98 4y ago

The obvious problem with this is that you'd be sending all your (presumably proprietary) source code directly to ChatGPT, i.e. OpenAI, i.e. Microsoft, with a dubiously vague license to use it to improve the ChatGPT product. I can't think of a single company I or someone I know has worked at that has a security department/person that would allow this. Maybe very small businesses wouldn't care that much?

nickpeterson 4y ago
Obfuscate the code, send to ChatGPT, then find replace the strange names in the summary with the normal ones ;)
MikePlacid 4y ago
I absolutely do not envy any team who would steal our source code. No, it’s not bad and is rather self-documented, but the amount is huge and it’s all inter-connected. What use can they extract from it?
nl 4y ago
> I can't think of a single company I or someone I know has worked at that has a security department/person that would allow this. Maybe very small businesses wouldn't care that much? Well there are lots of open source companies where this isn't a concern. Even outside that lots of businesses use GitHub as a code repository just fine, and the GitHub tools can read your code to eg scan for security vulnerabilities.