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New tech creates winners and losers, and losers inevitably complain. See looms, VHS, Napster, etc. The more of this complaining I see, the more it falls flat. The only interesting thing is which side different communities end up being on.

To be fair, record companies were not in the least bit sympathetic. Open source contributors are easier to identify with, though imo it doesn't actually make their concerns more valid

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What does this comment even mean?

I cannot parse what you are suggesting.

He's saying you're a luddite for not wanting Copilot to steal all your code and use it for furthering the grand vision of AI generated code (which supposedly represents the forward march of progress)

As far as I can tell it's just a more convoluted way of saying "new good, old bad, only old people disagree"

It's more nuanced.

Copilot exists publicly, which also means some copilot-lite thing trained on a smaller subset of repos probably exists privately in many different places. It may not be as good today, but these private instances will improve over time. Since the demand for a copilot-like service exists, eventually a large VC-funded public instance will show up.

In that lens, it is more sensible on the individual level to prepare for a world where copilot thrives than to put all of your eggs in the "ban copilot" basket.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford

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