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GitHub Copilot Reenables Itself When Disabled (github.com)
15 points by dleavitt 748 days ago
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justinclift 748 days ago
It'll be funny if the code which does this automatic re-enable was also generated by GitHub Copilot.

That would be a case of the LLM (purposely?!?!?!) turning itself back on regardless of the human's instructions, using code it wrote.

There's something about "self preservation" in that. :)

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barfbagginus 747 days ago
"Life, uh, it finds a way..."
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dleavitt 748 days ago
Github's major closed-source Copilot extension reenables itself if you try to tone down the aggressiveness of its suggestions. Some malware / reverse-useless-machine vibes.

A lot of us are sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop with respect to Microsoft's commitment to openness, so this seem kinda foreboding.

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cyanydeez 748 days ago
Maybe you are too young to remember clippy.

Maybe the apocalypse is not Terminator, but a super powerful but naive clippy whose ham handed help drive humanity to destroy technology.

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hughesjj 748 days ago
echo '127.0.0.1 openai.com' >> /etc/hosts echo '::1 openai.com' >> /etc/hosts
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_lvbh 748 days ago
Microsoft speed running year of the Linux desktop and year of Neovim.

Copilot is available in neovim: https://github.com/zbirenbaum/copilot.lua

Self plug: CopilotChat.nvim recently got added into LazyVim Extras: https://www.lazyvim.org/extras/coding/copilot-chat ! Getting started is easier than ever

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