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I’ve been using copilot for a few months now and I wouldn’t consider it as anything more than really good autocomplete. I don’t expect it to write code for me l

I’ve been using copilot for a few months now and I wouldn’t consider it as anything more than really good autocomplete. I don’t expect it to write code for me like ChatGPT does or really just do anything other than save me the hassle of typing out repetitive lines in testing and config files. And for that it’s great! Absolutely worth the $20 USD a month or whatever I pay for it It’s wild how much the narrative has changed around copilot since the release of ChatGPT. When copilot first came out there was so much breathless hemming and hawing over how it was so problematic for violating licenses. Turns out, it’s not really good enough to even be used in such a way that it could do that

still_grokking 3y ago
Oh, it think it's good enough to violate licenses. Because there is not much to it given how draconian copyright gets exercised in the western world. Copy paste a function signature… Copyright issue… Ask for example Google about that. (I mean the company, not necessary the search engine.) The class actions against MS & Friends regarding Copilot are still rolling: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html
- naikrovek 3y ago
  Google didn't get sued because of a single method signature, they got sued because they copied the function signatures of an entire language's standard library completely. that's a very different thing than copying a method signature here or there, and the suit was about the collection as a whole and would not have made it into a courtroom if it were just a few method signatures.