[sword-devel] GitHub Copilot

[David Haslam]

Johan,

Hehehe! 🤣

And my AI queries are not copyrighted! 😎

Best regards,

David

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On Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at 7:37 PM, Johan Marais <johan.marais at messianic.co.za> wrote:

> David,
> I used your query (hope you do not mind), but asked for Afrikaans place names.
> It listed two, both wrong, but conceded that the one name does not contain the letter sequence.
> Indeed stumped!
>
> Johan
>
>> On 24 Apr 2025, at 20:21, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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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