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Regardless of the why and the politics involved, having a coding assistant block on certain words, especially on common fields like gender, is going to disquali
by mcv 2y ago
Regardless of the why and the politics involved, having a coding assistant block on certain words, especially on common fields like gender, is going to disqualify it for many projects. The fact that a software project uses certain words, doesn't imply anything about the political views or potential abuse in that project. It could be that a project itself wants to censor the same words in content it handles, but now you can't use Copilot on that list. Or it might be a list of words the project wants to promote. You can't know. Making these sort of assumptions in a coding tool is a bad idea, no matter from which angle you look at it.
But I'm not a huge fan of relying on online coding tools. Has anyone tried running Deepseek locally and use it for coding?