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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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 23.7 ms ] threadA 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.
Maybe the apocalypse is not Terminator, but a super powerful but naive clippy whose ham handed help drive humanity to destroy technology.
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
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. :)