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GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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by cespare

1 subcomments

I had to sort by "Top: last year" to see two Copilot-related issues at the top.
They are:
- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749
- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/169148

by noobermin

12 subcomments

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

by rcleveng

0 subcomment

:shocked_pikachu_face:
In all seriousness, I was using a different LLM with vscode, and it still kept popping up dialogs about copilot. This is after I had uninstalled the copilot extensions (or at least I tried to uninstall it all).
I'd love for the IDE's like cursor to be able to be an extension on vscode and such, but this type of thing makes it super hard for that to be a reality.

by feverzsj

4 subcomments

Since copilot is trained with opensource code, wouldn't more opensource vibe code make the model collapse?

by egorfine

0 subcomment

They will not let people disable Copilot.
The reason is that "we are all-in on AI". [1] They have spent so much funds on AI infra that now they have to justify these decisions before the investors by forcing Copilot on everyone.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1mk7dcc/comment/n7g...
PS: I absolutely love Copilot. What I hate is MS's approach to it

by qhwudbebd

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I think it's pretty much policy by now that GitHub don't allow features to be disabled by users who dislike them. Those of us with public projects that don't or can't accept contributions through GH PRs (including niche things like torvalds/linux) have been asking to disable PRs since day 1.

by Szpadel

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doesn't you need to explicitly add copilot as reviewer for it to comment?
I recently tried it for our own PRs and it is far from perfect but it was able to find some typos, and I had to explicitly ask it for doing review
am I missing something?

by hommes-r

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Sad to see the "change world GDP" mantra didn't trickle down to the people doing the actual plumbing.

by cadamsdotcom

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Don't panic.
These forced AI shenanigans won't last, just like Clippy in ms word back in the day. Now barely a memory.

by jmclnx

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If I was still on github, I would also vote to disable copilot.
But I wonder if my usage back then would even run afoul of copilot ?
All I did was access github using ssh(1)/git(1). I only went into the WEB Page to create new projects, so maybe copilot would have been a non-issue for me.
Github was just a storage location to allow other people to get my items.