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		nabakin on Oct 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits ... Are variable names randomized before being trained on? If so, that could prove something else is going on because all of the variable names Copilot outputted were the same.

speedgoose on Oct 17, 2022 [–]

Copilot is good at naming variables, I don’t think you should randomise them.

nabakin on Oct 17, 2022 | [–]

I'm thinking Copilot may be good at naming variables and still use randomized variable naming in their training set

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