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Copilot is basically copying-from-stack-overflow on steroids. Maybe it should be called Copy-a-lot.

Whatever. Regardless of copying mechanisms I expect my fellow developers to understand every suggestion made by such tools.

Friendly reminder, stackoverflow is licensed with the Creative Commons sharealike license[0]. If you copy and paste from SO you are required to attribute the original author in your code.

I don’t think anybody does this. Let’s also ignore the fact that people share licensed code (GPL as example) as SO answers.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

Copilot has given me great utility and increased my productivity a lot. I constantly get surprised and amazed by the suggestions. A self-hosted version would be awesome.

especially with model tailoring and utilization of proprietary code bases. Really, models may want to overweight for those, at the users' discretion.

You have to start somewhere and the AI suggestions are already a big time saver.