Copilot Coders, do you look at your code and feel like it's not yours?

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orbz · Accepted Answer

At a certain point everything you build is on the shoulders of others. You didn&rsquo;t invent the language you&rsquo;re coding in, you didn&rsquo;t write the libraries and frameworks you&rsquo;re using.What you did do is integrate them in novel ways to create a unique system that no one else has.

cercatrova · Answer

No, it's code I would have written by looking things up from Stack Overflow anyway. Copilot doesn't actually really create novel algorithms, it's best used for boilerplate, in my experience.

metadat · Answer

Honestly, I feel like the whole thing is one big license violation. I stopped using it.Cool tech but upsides weren't even close to being worth the unethical downside quandaries.

Copilot Coders, do you look at your code and feel like it's not yours?

Copilot Coders, do you look at your code and feel like it's not yours?

At a certain point everything you build is on the shoulders of others. You didn’t invent the language you’re coding in, you didn’t write the libraries and frameworks you’re using.
What you did do is integrate them in novel ways to create a unique system that no one else has.

No, it's code I would have written by looking things up from Stack Overflow anyway. Copilot doesn't actually really create novel algorithms, it's best used for boilerplate, in my experience.

Honestly, I feel like the whole thing is one big license violation. I stopped using it.
Cool tech but upsides weren't even close to being worth the unethical downside quandaries.