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I wouldn't touch AI tooling with a ten-foot pole. Sooner or later, someone's gonna get sued for copyright infringement because they plagiarized someone else's code via Copilot, and I don't wanna be that someone.
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.
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.
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.