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by acuozzo 584 days ago
Not OP, but I've been trying to use Copilot to help me determine how to force Android's ConnectivityService to select the network I've created as its default.

The network shows up as the default network in netd. It shows up as a network when I dumpsys connectivity, but I cannot get it to be what ConnectivityService considers default.

I'm open to changing the code within AOSP as this is a research project, but even then Copilot just has no idea what to do and it keeps recommending the same non-working "solutions" over and over again.

FWIW, I'm using Copilot Pro.
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mehh 583 days ago
It’s a niche thing you’re trying to do, and likely not seen code that does that, thus it can’t help … it can’t actually think its way around it.
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acuozzo 583 days ago
Has it not ingested the entire AOSP codebase? I was under the impression that OpenAI had trained GPT-* on just about everything available to the public.

It's not necessarily niche either. The codebase already does this all the time. I just can't figure out why it won't do it for me.

FWIW, at least 80% of my time in writing software for an R&D laboratory is devoted to solving problems like this.

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