Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.
Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.
At least the way I use AI tooling, it would be very difficult to accidentally plagiarize code outside of boilerplate I guess. The way tools like GitHub Copilot are really useful is when using your existing code as “reference”, so if you use it to write a simple method, it’s only going to be restructuring your existing code.
In other words, Copilot is basically just meant to be used as really smart copy-paste.
Might be cool to actually have a pattern copy pasting for those 10 main use cases, I feel like using a LLM just to repeat some boilerplate is such a waste.
One case where the LLM is really useful is when generating some basic comments, but to be fair 50% of the time my comments explain why I’m doing something, and Copilot isn’t smart enough to understand that.
Plagiarizing boilerplate is still plagiarism.
If it only used my own code, I’d be less reluctant to use it, but I was under the impression that it’s trained on numerous projects, not just mine.
Also, if it only used my own code, would it be useful? I very rarely have to write the same code twice.