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Aren’t you giving your code away to Microsoft if you use Copilot?

Ya pretty sure using copilot only applies to personal projects. To my knowledge, you can’t use LLM’s while coding at work due to CCI.

However, there are plugins to use LLM’s while coding with Neovim and Emacs, so, you can still use these editors for that if you want.

> Ya pretty sure using copilot only applies to personal projects. To my knowledge, you can’t use LLM’s while coding at work due to CCI.

copilot for business exists https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/o...

You can now configure it to not use your code for learning

But it has to use your code for inferencing, doesn't it? So it is sending it to someone.

I see this being a blocker at a lot of places. I know in my workplace the infosec people are apoplectic about it and we supposedly have a 'partnership' with OpenAI.

You're not wrong, and I realize there is nuance here, but if you're using GitHub you are already sending your code to Microsoft.

I don't think using GitHub is a prerequisite for using Copilot but I could be wrong.

Do those places use GitHub? Anything on GitHub has been given to Microsoft.

Not like Microsoft has ever lied or breached trust

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