[A4ET8a8uTh0]

There is a risk, but the legal risk to individual users is yet to be decided.

What I think is more concerning is that copilot is an extension of effectively automatic copying stuff from stack overflow with even lesser understanding of what the code does by the prompt writer.

Do not get me wrong. I absolutely see the benefits, but the risk listed in the article seems less material than a further general decline in code quality. "Built by a human" may need to end up being a thing same way "organic" became a part of daily vocabulary.

[nottorp]

The problem is, all those people supporting Copilot in this thread can actually write said code without Copilot's help. Namely, they know what they're doing and the tool just saves them some typing.

What happens when this extends to the "specialists" that blindly copy code off Stack Overflow? What happens when this becomes part of learning to program? Will it be as useful for producing working, efficient code when used by people who don't know what they're doing?