An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…
even if that eventually costs me a job
I mean it’s kind of a ‘damned both ways’ situation, here. Right? Lose your job if you refuse to use it, lose your job if you end up training it how to do your job.
A programmer automating his job is kind of his job, though. That’s not so much the problem as the complete enshittification of software engineering that the culture surrounding these dubiously efficient and super sketchy tools seems to herald.
On the more practical side, enterprise subscriptions to the slop machines do come with assurances that your company’s IP (meaning code and whatever else that’s accessible from your IDE that your copilot instance can and will ingest) and your prompts won’t be used for training.
Hilariously, github copilot now has an option to prevent it from being too obvious about stealing other people’s code, called duplication detection filter:
If you choose to block suggestions matching public code, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on GitHub. If there is a match, or a near match, the suggestion is not shown to you.
Our plagiarism machine is not a plagiarism machine. In fact, it’s so much not a plagiarism machine we added an optional feature that lets it detect when its plagiarism is too ovious and make its plagiarism less ovious.
That’s just it though, it’s not going to replace you at doing your job. It is going to replace you by doing a worse job.
A programmer automating his job is kind of his job, though. That’s not so much the problem as the complete enshittification of software engineering that the culture surrounding these dubiously efficient and super sketchy tools seems to herald.
On the more practical side, enterprise subscriptions to the slop machines do come with assurances that your company’s IP (meaning code and whatever else that’s accessible from your IDE that your copilot instance can and will ingest) and your prompts won’t be used for training.
Hilariously, github copilot now has an option to prevent it from being too obvious about stealing other people’s code, called duplication detection filter:
Our plagiarism machine is not a plagiarism machine. In fact, it’s so much not a plagiarism machine we added an optional feature that lets it detect when its plagiarism is too ovious and make its plagiarism less ovious.