I use GitHub, I don't use its copilot.

I use web search, I don't use LLM websites.

I use MacOS, I don't use Siri.

I use Windows, I don't use Cortana/Copilot.

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I don't want LLMs to parrot back code from other projects without understanding what that code does and what my code does. I don't want it to parrot back irrelevant slop.

And I especially don't want it to parrot:

rm -rf $BUILDDIR/ && ./build-project.sh

and just hallucinate the assumption that $BUILDDIR is already defined.

But GitHub doesn't ship copilot as a separate binary. So the threat vector of “AI has no place in my VCS get it out it increases the surface area” is there. So it’s okay for github to have copilot but not iterm2 to have codesierge? Doesn't add up.

Github isn't a binary, it's a repo host. Github can hallucinate whatever it wants, it's not going to brick my computer.

A terminal on the other hand...

The point here is about compliance. I agree it’d be stupid to pipe the output of an LLM to a terminal’s command line. But people are saying they can’t use iterm2 now because compliance says no AI and having an mdm-secure way to disable the functionality is not enough because _there could be a bug_ or something. Yet they’re checking commits, in presumably the same compliance regime, into other software with AI features.

Github doesn't come with Copilot, even on the enterprise plan.

You have to explicitly pay for it and add it to your repo.