[HN Gopher] GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
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GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
Author : markhall
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-02-14 22:11 UTC (48 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (github.blog)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.blog)
| X-Istence wrote:
| Will Github indemnify users against potential copyright lawsuits
| related to the code it regurgitates?
| breckenedge wrote:
| An extra $9/mo for:
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| * Simple license management
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| * Organization-wide policy management
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| * Industry-leading private
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| * Corporate proxy support
|
| Wow. Who's going to pay a 90% premium for these features?
|
| Edit: OK seems like different marketing pages have different
| features. The list above comes from
| https://github.com/features/copilot/. Still seems like a very
| steep increase over the base. And I cannot believe there are
| _only_ 400ish companies using copilot.
| Aeolun wrote:
| The price difference is mostly irrelevant to large
| corporations. The just need that license management.
| ch4s3 wrote:
| People with corporate compliance departments.
| das_keyboard wrote:
| I think the privacy part would be a big part for some
| organizations, even if I do not know what this really means or
| what this implies for the other plans.
| tccole wrote:
| 9 bucks per developer isn't that much. I getting a developer to
| be 5 percent faster is a huge gain for just 9 dollars.
| paxys wrote:
| Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer
| is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case
| for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we
| should all be operating at infinite efficiency.
| aleph_minus_one wrote:
| > Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the
| developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the
| same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the
| world, and so we should all be operating at infinite
| efficiency.
|
| After n such iterations, the developer gets 100*(1-0.95^n)%
| faster. So, after some such $10/month purchases, the
| developer gets so fast that buying another improvement
| yields diminishing returns.
| Spooky23 wrote:
| If you want to make a conversation awkward, ask your account
| team about the indemnification for the AI's potential copyright
| violations.
| rectang wrote:
| Is Copilot HIPAA compliant? It sends data to the cloud, so if you
| paste PHI...
| moyix wrote:
| My prediction that they'd offer on-prem hosting of the models
| (for businesses with IP / secrecy concerns) turns out to be
| wrong! Seems like a weird choice, but maybe their hands are tied
| by OpenAI not wanting to lose control over the models?
| IshKebab wrote:
| More likely their hands are tied by not many businesses wanting
| to pay for a DGX A100 to run the models!
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| Sadly, "simple license management" here just refers to "who in
| your organization has a license to use this tool", rather than
| "where did this code come from and what license is it under".
|
| This tool remains the equivalent of money laundering for
| violation of Open Source licenses (or software licenses in
| general).
| unxdfa wrote:
| Yeah we were told not to use it by the lawyers at work and have
| an official policy against using it. Not having that would open
| us up for liability if we're sued as there's no defence that
| what we did was clean room if we admitted using it.
|
| We'll hang back until other companies have litigated their way
| to some legislation around it.
| danuker wrote:
| Indeed, that is why I don't use it either.
|
| Double-checking whether the generated part is a verbatim copy
| negates the speed advantage.
|
| Possible infringements from similarity are even harder to
| search.
| aunch wrote:
| if you want an actual enterprise solution with in-customer-
| tenant/on-prem hosting, check out Codeium
| (https://www.codeium.com/enterprise)
|
| disclaimer: i'm from the Codeium team. but really, we will even
| ship you a physical box if that level of data security is
| important to you
| BaculumMeumEst wrote:
| you're going to need to ship that emacs extension if you want
| to keep advertising on HN :-)
| cloudking wrote:
| What model do you use? CodeGen?
| keithnz wrote:
| Currently using codeium after they had an HN post not so long
| ago. Seems not too bad, though for C# its code generation is
| pretty poor, though apparently there is supposed to be
| improvements to the model soon.
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