Q. So what is GitHub Copilot ?
Q. Will it replace the developers with AI machines ?
Q. Is it the start of the end?
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At least they're up-front about it as most of the above is mentioned as a possibility in their FAQ [4].
Microsoft is a 1.7 trillion dollar enterprise, by the way. They should be alright without you jumping into the breach for them.
1 opensource.org/docs/osd
2 choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
3 choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/
4 copilot.github.com/#faqs
Edit: Added the distinction between "public source" and "open source" with links and fixed some grammar.
Addition: Look, I understand this is the future. What bothers me is that there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that they left hanging when it comes to ethics.
I guess the paradigm that applies to Facebook and Google now also applies to GitHub: "when something is free, you're the product". Except in this case GitHub might have violated the license of public code (AKA stole it) and there's no way to tell if you're a victim.
I recently wrote an article about it as well dev.to/rahulbanerjee99/some-experi...
Yup , at times it generates weird stuff. It generated the local file paths of some random users at times which is kind of creepy.
Looks very similar to TabNine which I've been using for ages - although Copilot seems to be totally OTT in comparison. TabNine's suggestions are fairly conservative, but incredibly helpful - it really does feel like it's reading your mind sometimes.
This level of completion though - especially the very large ones, is an absolute disaster for the levels of competency in the industry, and very bad for people who are learning. It's almost an automated StackOverflow copy-pasta machine.
Possibly useful in the right hands, but - as they say - with great power, comes great responsibility
for javascript at least it slowed me down, I deactivated so Copilot must be better or I'll do the same ;)
yeah exactly, tabnine is a very nice extension to add in you IDE's it helps alot !! 🤗🤗
Happy to help 💙
Hey Jon, we are very happy to hear that you're enjoying Tabnine in your IDE ♥️
So, GitHub/Micro$oft is now injecting source code derived from copyrighted sources into the software of their customers without informing them of the license of the original source code.
I'm sure lawyers will be very interested
Micro$oft should be their new name !! 😂😂
I definitely don't think orgs should be hiring people who just rely on the AI to code for them; what if Copilot breaks and manual coding is necessary?
An auto coding tool is not a substitute for a sufficiently wholesome CV.
I really do agree on this point ! but the whole point is that in the worst case scenario if the AI becomes so intelligent that it doesnt require devs anymore then companies wont be hiring at all
For me at the moment it's more a competitor for Google + Stackoverflow copy and paste :)
same here 🙌
I don't think it's based on GPT-3 though it is made by the same company OpenAI
its not actually based on gpt-3, but its works on a language model very similar to GPT-3 !!
GPT-3 can do a little bit of arithmetics by accident.
There's no reason to believe GPT-5 won't, equally accidentally, write correct code.