Safeguards are being implemented to make sure verbatim comments do not make it into code suggestions.

GitHub has found that code snippet suggestions were verbatim about 0.1% of the time. GitHub’s Ryan Salva, vice president of product, said Copilot provides synthesized code suggestions, not verbatim comments.

It also has been suggested that a fair amount of human intervention will be needed when working with it. But Copilot has raised some eyebrows, particularly with the Free Software Foundation, which has called it “unacceptable and unjust,” saying Copilot requires commercial software and that it constitutes copyright infringement when using code snippets and other elements copied from GitHub-hosted repositories.Ĭopilot also has caused concern about possible breaches of software licenses and the quality of code it writes. Copilot draws on the context of function names, method names, class names, and comments to generate and synthesize code, providing developers with suggestions for entire lines of code or functions within their editor.

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