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PSA: GitHub copilot may share your code during contest
By Egor, history, 2 years ago, In English

During Codechef Starters 55 when I solved non-scoring problems I've got following helpful suggestion from copilot:

Seems oddly specific, right? So if you use copilot during contests you should disable following option:

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2 years ago, # |
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Maybe this problem was also copied from somewhere else?

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Obviously, no proofs, just guesses, but I doubt it could do any real-time learning from others' code (and also I don't think somebody actually used Rust for this problem except you?).

I think what happened is the rust-helper, which you used, saved the problem sample (which has words "PERAIR", "ANY" and "NEW PHONE") as json to the first line of your solution file. And then copilot parsed it, and suggested. But still seems funny that it actually correctly guessed the permutation.

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    Not exactly, I had to change Less and Greater

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Now that is what we should call a notorious coPILOTence.

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Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2169/

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