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natefinch on July 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Give up GitHub: The time has come

Copilot is software, it can't be the author, just like the OS isn't the author when you copy and paste. Authors have to be humans.

pabs3 on July 2, 2022 [–]

Copy and paste doesn't really write code, just copies it from one place to another. Copilot on the other hand does generate new potentially novel code.

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