[sword-devel] GitHub Copilot

[Tobias Klein]

Hi pinoaffe,

Thanks for your feedback!

Regarding potential legal and ethical issues you mention I think 
everyone will have to make their own judgment before using this technology.
The company I am working for has recently decided to deploy GitHub 
Copilot for a large population of developers (multiple thousand 
licenses) and they deemed it to be OK and I also did.

Regarding the technical issue you mention:

> - LLMs are very good at generating text/code that *looks*
>    plausible/correct, but that is not necessarily correct.  Therefore, it
>    is often more difficult to verify that code generated by an LLM is
>    not subtly broken than it is to write similar code yourself.  *PLEASE*
>    do not underestimate this issue.

Of course the results must always be evaluated by the developer to 
ensure correctness.
In my experience, there are sometimes cases were the results generated 
by LLMs are not correct. I have seen this both with ChatGPT as well as 
GitHub Copilot.
However, in my experience the positive results that I got definitely 
outweigh the negative results.

Best regards,
Tobias