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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] doleo@lemmy.one 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

even if that eventually costs me a job I mean it's kind of a 'damned both ways' situation, here. Right? Lose your job if you refuse to use it, lose your job if you end up training it how to do your job.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's just it though, it's not going to replace you at doing your job. It is going to replace you by doing a worse job.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A programmer automating his job is kind of his job, though. That's not so much the problem as the complete enshittification of software engineering that the culture surrounding these dubiously efficient and super sketchy tools seems to herald.

On the more practical side, enterprise subscriptions to the slop machines do come with assurances that your company's IP (meaning code and whatever else that's accessible from your IDE that your copilot instance can and will ingest) and your prompts won't be used for training.

Hilariously, github copilot now has an option to prevent it from being too obvious about stealing other people's code, called duplication detection filter:

If you choose to block suggestions matching public code, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on GitHub. If there is a match, or a near match, the suggestion is not shown to you.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Our plagiarism machine is not a plagiarism machine. In fact, it's so much not a plagiarism machine we added an optional feature that lets it detect when its plagiarism is too ovious and make its plagiarism less ovious.