GitHub Copilot Reenables Itself When Disabled (opens in new tab)

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15 pointsdleavitt1y ago6 comments

6 comments

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. :)

barfbagginus1y ago

"Life, uh, it finds a way..."

dleavittOP1y 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.

cyanydeez1y 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.

hughesjj1y ago

echo '127.0.0.1 openai.com' >> /etc/hosts echo '::1 openai.com' >> /etc/hosts

acheong081y 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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