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Copilot, I want to build a spreadsheet application and a database engine.

• tyingq 3y ago
  Ah, so for copyright reasons.
  • hangsi 3y ago
    This isn't really copyright - more the microeconomics of losing market share/control. Specifically, I think they are less concerned with (say) specific Excel code leaking than with the knock on effects of a cheap perfect substitute.
    • norir 3y ago
      > Specifically, I think they are less concerned with (say) specific Excel code leaking than with the knock on effects of a cheap perfect substitute. Is there any evidence that an LLM could actually generate a perfect substitute for excel solely through prompting if only the excel source was in the training data? I hypothesize that designing a prompt for an LLM that captures all of Excel's properties would be comparable in difficulty to reimplementing the functionality without an LLM.