Copilot just sells code other people wrote

• triangulate

  1 1 0.0 Go

  An asymptotically fast triangulation package for Go. (by osuushi)

I can give you an example of an entire (well, I still consider it alpha) library I wrote several months ago, using Copilot: https://github.com/osuushi/triangulate

This is an implementation of a 1991 paper on polygon triangulation into Go. So the deepest thinking about how to solve the problem was obviously already done for me, but there were a number of edge cases that I had to invent my own solutions to, and the translation itself involved keeping a lot of context in my head.

I can’t tell you in precise detail what Copilot did, and what I wrote by hand. I wasn’t taking notes or recording my screen. But there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of blocks in there where I forgot to comment anything, because my entire process for this was “type what I want to do in English, and see if Copilot will generate the next snippet, or something close”. I didn’t do this out of bloodyminded dedication to the AI cause, but because it continued to be an extremely effective way to get the code written quickly.

I can give a few specifics:

- My linear algebra is rusty, and Copilot was extremely helpful here. I would often just type the basic thing I was trying to do in pretty vague linear algebra terms, and it would generate the formula.

• fast_inv_sqrt

  1 1 10.0 C

  attempt to understand the _evil floating point bit level hacking_

That regurgitated code exists on Github exists under an MIT license: https://github.com/jethrodaniel/fast_inv_sqrt

"jethrodaniel" does not appear to have the copyright to offer that license, but it's hard for Github to determine that in general, so I doubt they would be liable for the error.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• NT4.0

  8 45 10.0

  Windows NT 4.0 source code leak

• WinNT4

  3 303 0.0 C

  Windows NT4 Kernel Source code

• nt5src

  6 432 0.0

  Source code of Windows XP (NT5). Leaks are not from me. I just extracted the archive and cabinet files.

• NT5.1

  3 181 0.0

  Windows NT 5.0 kernel source code.

• imaginary-programming-thesis

  2 5 0.0
  

That's because with a generative internet all you really need is blockchain + prompting.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mullikine/ilambda

Language models are able to 'steal' the linguistic meaning-making 'essence' of the software, by modelling:

- How the software is used (mimicing its function) - externing function

- How functions are 'inspired' - internal function

https://github.com/semiosis/imaginary-programming-thesis

The models themselves should be clear about where the data came from.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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