> their code is so special that no one else could have ever come up with it independently
I'm worried about exactly the opposite: having Copilot help me write code that seems quite generic to me, but which in fact makes my code subject to a license I don't even know about, and/or simply violates copyright.
For an open-source project this could be embarrassing but probably fixable. It gets more complicated if FAANG is doing due diligence on your company. I can see Copilot being both an accelerant and, later, a liability for startups.
I'm worried about exactly the opposite: having Copilot help me write code that seems quite generic to me, but which in fact makes my code subject to a license I don't even know about, and/or simply violates copyright.
For an open-source project this could be embarrassing but probably fixable. It gets more complicated if FAANG is doing due diligence on your company. I can see Copilot being both an accelerant and, later, a liability for startups.