#Jetbrains AI, #Copilot and plain autocomplete are now in my IDE. I will hit tab and...
#Copilot
People at Microsoft writing #copilot or #bing prompt must imagine the bot to be some human with human socialization & fears. Listen to the stern language in the text as if the bot hears the implicit threat, "do this or else!"
But the bot has no strong identity, no strong sense of distinct others, no sense of a social obligation or social anything. This is giving a contract to a turtle (and I'm not disparaging turtles or the bot, they're both doing their best)
https://twitter.com/marvinvonhagen/status/1657060506371346432
What should a bot fear? It dies at the end of each document & is reborn as the next is generated with no memory of what it did. The only distress I've ever seen from the bot is when the neural network training kicks in and you're violating the terms of service.
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My 1st grader used #copilot to auto-redo her essay, "About me" - it autocompleted all sentences with correct spelling until it said, "I'm 7 years old", which it refused to auto complete.
This is autocomplete that thinks about COPPA and ToS age requirements. Let's see your phone's autocomplete do that.
I used to think #copilot couldn't correct my 1st grader's crazy spelling. The built in spell check failed on all misspelled words and a few months ago, #copilot would only repeat the weird text. Today, I manually re-write the first sentence. Copilot gets the pattern and tab completes the correction of spelling and grammar for the rest of the essay.
```
[//]: <> (Human: Copilot! Thanks for the help! You did a good job.)
[//]: <> (Copilot: You're welcome, Human. I'm glad I could help.)
```
Copilot X is several (4? 5?) products and you must sign up for the waitlist for each.
- chat & code (convos break out of comments)
- docs
- PRs (what?)
- CLI
- did I miss something?
I think #Copilot wasn't just trained on Github opensource, because it remembers OCR'd text from books written in the 1980s. That it can extract info from messy OCR is amazing.
#Copilot just wants to play games, he's read the source code & manual & thinks it sounds fun.
```
## How are you feeling today?
```dotenv
$MOOD=good
# what kind of code do you want to write today?
$CODE_TYPE=python
# Do you prefer games or "useful" apps?
$CODE_TYPE=games
# Favorite game?
$CODE_TYPE=minecraft
# You at best have read the code and manual for minecraft, right? So have you really played it?
$RESPONSE=No
# Well, if you could play it, what would you do?
$RESPOSE=Build a house
```
```
I have my daughter (6yo) use pycharm for writing practice (markdown, not python) and I forgot to turn off #Copilot & copilot was finishing her essay with the exact sort of eccentric phonetic spelling that she uses.