Terence EdenOct 2, 2024

🆕 blog! “GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?”

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …

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GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There were radioactive toys, radioactive medicines, radioactive chocolate bars, and a hundred other […]

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Show threadAlex White

@Edent It’s odd that it’s so awful for some things, but can be really useful for some other things.

I wanted to update a .net3 project to .net6. I asked it how to do it, and then each time I got an error message asked it how to correct that error message and I ended up with the conversion successfully done in tens of minutes rather than days.

Would I let it loose on writing something from scratch? No way! But for simple-ish tasks that I’m unfamiliar with, it has been useful to me.

Oct 2, 2024 at 9:17pmWeb
Show threadAlex WhiteOct 2, 2024

@Edent

In terms of the bigger picture analogy you draw with Radium though - I hate that it is being crowbarred into nearly every software package under the sun. Recently Canva has announced a pricing increase to pay for their ‘AI’ stuff (whether you use it or not, it seems) https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features

Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase

The price of team subscriptions are set to skyrocket next year, which Canva justified due to the apparent value that generative AI tools have added to the platform.

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