> You probably don't sell code snippets that you collected from various sources you can't remember without knowing whether you're even allowed to sell some of them.
actually i'm sure you do, you just don't think of it this way. The education you received to learn to code would consists of such snippets and examples. Then you sell your skill as a programmer, which consists of you recalling past experience and knowledge, and transform that into the final piece of code.
Copilot is merely doing something like that, but way less sophisticated than a human brain.
This. Sure I synthesize, but everything I synthesize is made out of stuff that came from somewhere. If the "snippets" are small enough, they become no different than me consulting the man page for a function.
I think this will require looking at some actual examples to try to judge, and figure out how to articulate the basis for the judgement.
Hm. That begs the question what good is it if it deals in such small bits? I guess that means if the snippets are large enough to be of any value at all, then they are automatically big enough to be damning.
actually i'm sure you do, you just don't think of it this way. The education you received to learn to code would consists of such snippets and examples. Then you sell your skill as a programmer, which consists of you recalling past experience and knowledge, and transform that into the final piece of code.
Copilot is merely doing something like that, but way less sophisticated than a human brain.