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It's called "Copilot" and the tagline is "Your AI pair programmer." It's obviously being marketed as more than code suggestion software. It's being marketed as an AI pair programmer.

I agree that it is basically just code suggestion software, or like a big autocomplete. But it's definitely being marketed as more.

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This sounds almost like Tesla's Autopilot, both in naming and in actual performance.

Ha, I ranted about this two weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724969

This is very true, and much like Tesla getting away with it for years (up until recently), GitHub will get away with this for a while as well. And so will the media decrying shit like "Is this the end of developers?!?"

> And so will the media decrying shit like "Is this the end of developers?!?"

Yeah, CoPilot already replaced my job. I used to be the office copypasta, going around to my coworkers desk all day long to fix their problems by googling them, then pasting in the first snippet to pop up. It didn't matter if the language matched or not, it was more the thought that counted. Now I've had to get a job as a loan rejection stamper at my local bank. It's not nearly as fun or exciting, but at least my effort makes a difference now. A big difference.

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the biggest concern and reason to pump the brakes on copilot is the unresolved elephant in the room: the growing consensus that it violates FOSS licenses.

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