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> Hi. I know you’re excited about copilot.

> ...

> It’s truly disappointing to watch people cheer at having their work and time exploited by a company worth billions.

Huh? Over the last few days that I've watched this "copilot" story unfold on various news aggregator sites, I've first seen people point out copyright and other issues with it, then the fast inverse square root tweet happened, and then more articles and tweets like this one and the discussion that we are currently having. But I somehow don't really recall anyone besides the Microsoft marketing department being overly excited about it. Did I miss something?

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Well, for whatever reason, the HN thread for it is in the top 30 most upvoted threads of all time. That probably counts for something.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The comments on the original announcement here were pretty positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266

How amazing would it be if you could ask a search engine for a piece of working code based on a short description?

That would be exciting tech for me.

There have been a lot of tweets from developers with access raving about how cool it is.

> But I somehow don't really recall anyone besides the Microsoft marketing department being overly excited about it

What you just saw 3 days ago was a hype driven unveiling of a cherry picked contraption by GitHub, OpenAI and Microsoft. Open source became the loser once again and got taken advantage of this clever trick and will soon become a paid service. (With lots of code that is under copyright of various authors.)

Anyone who critiqued the announcement three days ago was drowned out, downvoted and stamped on by the fanatics.

I wanted to see those who had access to it (Not GitHub or Microsoft fans) to demystify and VERIFY the claims rather than blindly trust it. Those suspicions by the skeptics were right, and lots of questions still remain unanswered.

Well done for re-centralising everything to GitHub. Again.

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