On: Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions

[sillysaurusx]

Haha. Thank you. Well, I just hope Copilot starts caring about people’s concerns.

It’s kind of strange that no one from Copilot has said anything on HN. I wonder who has the authority to discuss it, if anyone. Usually bad PR is accompanied by “So-and-so from X here! We hear you…”

They’re probably going to have a much harder time launching this feature than they imply in the article. It’s hard even for database companies that specialize in full text search.

[addandsubtract → sillysaurusx]

The original thread about Copilot contained a post from the dev at github. He only answered a couple of softball questions, though.

[onionisafruit → sillysaurusx]

I think the this article is an indication that github is taking this seriously

[Sanguinaire → onionisafruit]

It's an indication that they want the appearance of taking it seriously.

I think this episode will tell us definitely how much of GitHub is left, and how much Microsoft has infected their culture.