GitHub Copilot adds several new wrinkles to the question whether you should open source code and put it on GitHub. If your project is addressing a specialised domain, will Copilot all of a sudden commodify your specialised work as reusable autocompletes without attribution?

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@baldur Not speaking about this being a nice security backdoor. Just "insert" code which does the job and "runs" all unit tests (if any) and who cares about those 2-3 lines you do not fully comprehend.

@FailForward Yeah, this is likely to replicate a lot of bad ideas and insecurities.

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