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Agreed. JetBrains and GitHub Copilot are the two exceptions for me as an individual programmer.


> GitHub Copilot are the two exceptions for me as an individual programmer

I'm sure your boss will be overjoyed when the company will get hit by a lawsuit :)


Oh yes I’m sure my boss is shaking in their boots about being liable for how I spend my own money on my own time for personal projects.


The entire topic of the discussion was engineers buying their own work tools.

You went OT. It happens. No reason to be snarky about it.


Disagree. The comment I replied to was about personally paying for tools. My read was that they meant for personal use. And you started the snark, not me.


regardless I think a point was missed that you might end up pushing up code produced by copilot that could get your company in legal trouble

While I think this concern has a lot of merit, I use Copilot a lot almost always just as a fancy autocomplete. I wouldn't ever let it produce a completely new piece of code for me and I imagine most other devs using it have the same practices so this critique never really hit




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