GitHub Copilot Reenables Itself When Disabled

[justinclift]

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. :)

[barfbagginus]

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

[dleavitt]

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.

[cyanydeez]

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.

[hughesjj]

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

[acheong08]

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