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Comment by Zababa

> Github's study predates any negative press, so that would not have be the reason for them to manipulate the study.

I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot.

> And the examples that are making the rounds combine two aspects a) prompt-engineering b) famous code samples. That's hardly representative of normal use.

That's true, however the way they advertise Copilot is to prompt it with comments, which might push it to regurgitate code more often.

parent Zababa 5 years ago

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