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# Code assistants
- URL: https://new-blog.dougals.me/code-assistants/
- Published: 2025-04-18T11:48:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-18T11:48:29.000Z
- Author: Dougie Richardson
- Tags: Coding, Snippet, #Migrated-1789219936886, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-12 13:32

![](https://blog.dougals.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-1.png)

I've Co-pilot enabled while following a book, The Rust Programming Language (Klabnick and Nichols, 2023). Can't help but notice that I get code recommendations that are identical to the book.

I assume this is because not only is the book's code on GitHub but there's a bunch of people following along using GitHub.

At what point can we say that something is intelligent rather than I've seen the same code repeatedly?