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How Visual Studio Code does not have an even playing field when it comes to AI tooling.

Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t touch AI tooling with a ten-foot pole. Sooner or later, someone’s gonna get sued for copyright infringement because they plagiarized someone else’s code via Copilot, and I don’t wanna be that someone.

    • Barbarian772@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I already copy boilerplate code verbatim from docs or stackoverflow. Also how would that work in closed source programs?

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I already copy boilerplate code verbatim from docs or stackoverflow.

        That code has predictable license terms. You have no idea what the license terms are for some random code that an AI plagiarized for you, because you have no idea where it even came from.

        Also how would that work in closed source programs?

        I don’t know, but Stac Electronics somehow figured out that Microsoft plagiarized their code, so it seems best to assume that I will also be caught.