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by am17an 1771 days ago
I really want to just play with this tech- it’s frightening but also the future, but I’m still waiting to be accepted on the GitHub copilot waitlist. I wonder how long this will take for people who don’t know someone who knows someone…
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Uhh... I'm literally no one but got the access for like a week or so. I got 134 repos and 12,060 contributions in the last year. Idk if that mattered.
I have around 10 repos and perhaps a few hundred contributions total over all my years. Got accepted within a few days. Seems to be random.
I have 353 repos and 2146 contributions in the past year and haven't been accepted (yet!). It does seem to be random.
that's not the future, these large language models have no understanding of language, they repeat the most frequently occurring patterns like parrots. They miss this whole thing called semantics.