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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft found a fitting way to punish AI for collaborating with SEO spammers in generating slop: make it use the GitHub code review tools. https://github.blog/changelog/2024-10-29-refine-and-validate-code-review-suggestions-with-copilot-workspace-public-preview/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

we really shouldn’t have let Microsoft both fork an editor and buy GitHub, of course they were gonna turn one into a really shitty version of the other

anyway check this extremely valuable suggestion from Copilot in one of their screenshots:

The error message 'userld and score are required' is unclear. It should be more specific, such as 'Missing userld or score in the request body'.

aren’t you salivating for a Copilot subscription? it turns a lazy error message into… no that’s still lazy as shit actually, who is this for?

  • a human reading this still needs to consult external documentation to know what userId and score are
  • a machine can’t read this
  • if you’re going for consistent error messages or you’re looking to match the docs (extremely likely in a project that’s in production), arbitrarily changing that error so it doesn’t match anything else in the project probably isn’t a great idea, and we know LLMs don’t do consistency
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I want someone to fork the Linux kernel and then unleash like 10 Copilots to make PRs and review each other. No human intervention. Then plot the number of critical security vulnerabilities introduced over time, assuming they can even keep it compilable for long enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

that’d be an interesting experiment but also that’s $2400 you could spend on more useful things, like bootstrapping your whiskey collection

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

@self did somebody make an extension that replaces github copilot with ELIZA yet