GitHub Copilot will respect your privacy!

lmao... when you give an LLM unlimited power and an ill-defined role, it assumes the position of a shitty project manager, of course
- It’s learning capabilities are clearly unrivaled
  I kinda feel like GPT is if you skipped college and just went with the apprenticeship strategy but it’s apprenticeship was with Reddit posts
  Good enough but every now and then has some wildly inaccurate shit sprinkled in just enough to make you question the integrity of the whole thing.
  LLMs (unless implemented with general knowledge AI) will never be accurate or more than a novelty toy. It’s close to being iRobot but right now it’s just an abacus. The future won’t be about one model, it’ll be about orchestration of models or the development of model ecosystems to make a better overall symphony as the product/tool
  
  LLMs (unless implemented with general knowledge AI) will never be accurate or more than a novelty toy.
  I see Bing horribly confabulate all the time (and sometimes subsequently gaslight).
  Thus I was surprised at last month’s Klarna news:
  Wonder what’s going on behind the scenes.
- I laughed my ass off at this! So well put!
  Today, my last 3 messages to Gemini were all pretty much: "cool! We're agreed on the framework and tone etc in which you'll communicate this thing to me. Now please, create the fucking thing already"

Oh! I can do better than the LLM to write code:

// TODO (Linus Torvalds) write this app for me, kthxbye.
- From : torvalds@klaava.helsinki.FI
  🖕
  
  @torvalds@social.kernel.org has a fedi account.
  
  Well, nVidia just got told.

Copilot isn't wrong, they are the best person for the task. 🤷
- AI: "Can I copy your work?"
  Phil: "Just don't make it obvious."
  AI:
  
  Oh, great. Now it’s able to copy being lazy and confused, too. Fuck!

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
- Oh nice! Does this exist for EU as well?

Can someone explain why April is nervous about having the username April? I don't get it
- Other people reading ToDo(April) will probably assume that feature is slated for April, the month.
  
  Thank you, that makes sense.
- Because if you didn’t know better, someone seeing “TODO(April)” would probably assume it means “do this sometime in April.” Especially since we’re in the middle of March, with April just around the corner. She’s probably about to get e-mail bombed by git requests.
- Apathetically Program Ruthless International Launches
  might start a war.
  
  Oh so it's like C.O.O.K.S.!

lol, did you post Xcrement of a post from Bluesky.
- im so sad that people are going to bluesky instead of mastadon
  
  I really tried, a few times and I just can't make it exciting. I find it so boring to search for people and tags I wantto follow. That said, I wasn't a huge Twitter user before, and i don't have bluesky. I'm just hoping one day, mastodon clicks with me.
- "Why are people not using Mastodon?"
  Mastodon Users: "lololol you are posting excrement from an inferior platform"
  You could just... Not engage with posts you don't like, y'know?
  
  the fuck? i didnt mention mastodon at all. please never join mastodon.

So how exactly does this work?
- Copilot is just an LLM trained on all GitHub code. Hence it gives you random stuff from some open source code bases.
  
  Not random, the most used stuff It means this man is either very productive, or else he is constantly having to be told to do his job.

Does anybody mind explaining, how this might have happened?
- Copilot is a LLM. So it's just predicting what should come next, word by word, based off the data its been fed. It has no concept of whether or not its answer makes sense.
  So if you've scraped a bunch of open source github projects that this guy has worked on, he probably has a lot of TODOs assigned to him in various projects. When Copilot sees you typing "TODO(" it tries to predict what the nextthing you're going to type is. And a common thing to follow "TODO(" in it's data set is this guy's username, so it goes ahead and suggests it, whether or not the guy is actually on the project and suggesting him would make any sort of sense.
  
  You can absolutely add constraints to control for hallucinations. Copilot apparently doesn't have enough, though.
  
  I thought it synced some requests and assigned projects to another user (Saw an ad about github Copilot managing issues and writing PR descriptions sometime ago)
- It’s no different from GPT knowing the plot of Aliens or who played the main role in Matilda.
  It's seen enough code to recognise the pattern, it knows an author name goes in there, and Phil Nash is likely a prolific enough author that it just plopped his name in there. It's not intelligence, just patterns.
  
  "Yeah this sounds like a Phil Nash sort of problem, I'll just stick him in here."
- The other answers are great, but if I were to be a bit more laconic:
  Copilot is spicy autocorrect. It autocorrected that todo to insert that guy's name because he gets a lot of todos.

I use copilot every day and I have zero clue what this means but I assume it has nothing to do with copilot... ?
- Copilot is regurgitating the code he wrote, complete with comments addressed to himself
  
  Weird...