FauxPilot: It's like GitHub Copilot, but doesn't phone home to Microsoft
For Dolan-Gavitt, the primary goal of FauxPilot is to provide a way to run the AI assistance software on-premises.
"There are people who have privacy concerns, or maybe, in the case of work, some corporate policies that prevent them from sending their code to a third-party, and that definitely is helped by being able to run it locally," he explained., describes an option to disable the collection of Code Snippets Data, which includes"source code that you are editing, related files and other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and files paths.
Doing so, however, has some challenges."At the moment, it's somewhat impractical to try and create a dataset that doesn't have any security vulnerabilities because the models are really data hungry," said Dolan-Gavitt. "So they want lots and lots of code to train on. But we don't have very good or foolproof ways of ensuring that code is bug free. So it would be an immense amount of work to try and curate a data set that was free of security vulnerabilities.", finds AI assistance useful enough to stick with it.
"My personal feeling on this is I've had Copilot turned on basically since it came out last summer," he explained."I do find it really useful. That said, I do kind of have to double check its work. But often, it's often easier for me at least to start with something that it gives me and then edit it into correctness than to try to create it from scratch." ®
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