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by iafisher 1814 days ago
In your hypothetical 100% of completions are copied verbatim from existing code. But if GitHub is to believed, only 0.1% are.
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It doesn't sound like the person you're replying to understands that the code returned is largely synthesized with OpenAI's Codex. It is not simply a "snippet selection" mechanism, it has "learned" (to a limited degree) patterns in code, and can generate those patterns even if they don't exist verbatim from the training set.