[sword-devel] GitHub Copilot

[David Haslam]

I’m not a coder but I completely stumped ChatGPT today with a simple query.

List all place names containing the letter sequence "rfr"

The full detailed conversation is posted in my Facebook profile.

David

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 19:09, Tobias Klein < [contact at tklein.info](mailto:On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 19:09, Tobias Klein <<a href=)> wrote:

> 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
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