• zod000@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    I actually had this happen more than once because of a coworker that uses Copilot and it would help him with code and use functions not in existance. He has since finally stopped trusting Copilot code without more testing.

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      17 hours ago

      Worse, they typically do exist, just in training data made up of others’ code. Sometimes if you put the function names into GitHub search, you can find them.