Fair enough, it seems like we mostly agree on how technology generally affects the world. I can't say I currently possess the domain knowledge to confirm your views on GPT, so I'll just have to hope you are right.
I see your point, but aren't you making me into a bit of a straw man? When did I say that I was some open-access Luddite who won't use any technology that they can't build themselves. I just like the current state of programming, where I can productively build new and exciting things without having to rely on a lot of proprietary libraries or tools. Nothing more, nothing less.
> If the technical preview is successful, our plan is to build a commercial version of GitHub Copilot in the future.
This may be the first time that a proprietary coding tool offers such a great value preposition that I am actually interested in trying it out and potentially even paying for it. It's also a bit concerning that this will probably be extremely hard, if not impossible, to create an FOSS version of this technology, just because of the immense amount of computing power, and by extension money, needed to create GPT3.
I'm not that comfortable with the idea of a future where proprietary AI-based solutions and libraries (e.g. automatic testing libraries, which have been mentioned here a few times) are so powerful that I'll be forced to use them if I don't want to waste my time.