3d ago

Copilot stops working on `gender` related subjects

github.com Copilot stops working on `gender` related subjects · community · Discussion #72603

As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because ...

Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. And if you prefix transactional data as trans_ Copilot will refuse to help you. 😑

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time to hide words like these in code
- Clearly the answer is to write code in emojis that are translated into heiroglyphs then "processed" into Rust. And add a bunch of beloved AI keywords here and there. That way when it learns to block it they'll inadvertantly block their favorite buzzwords
  
  It's thinking like this that keeps my hope for technology hanging on by a thread