Primarily interested in Go, Python, Swift, Android (Java) and Web stuff. So, relatively mainstream languages, nothing too esoteric.
What have people found to be the best copilot paid subscription, at the moment?
Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#2The AI Assistant in JetBrains is the best I've encountered. In Pycharm, specifically.
I've tried using my OpenAI subscription directly to use GPT4, but copy-pasting between the browser and the lack of context (that GPT has of my code) is limiting.
I've tried Copilot, but it just produces large amounts of junk code, and it gets irritating.
JetBrain's AI Assistant is built into the IDE I use, it melds well with all the pre-existing coding assistance it offers, the conversation interface is useful and can answer questions on specific parts of code (I habitually highlight whatever I'm interested in and ask it about that), and it's good when I ask it to write tests.
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#3If you use JetBrains products, I've been pretty happy with their AI assistant. I feel like it's less disruptive than GitHub Copilot. If I ask it to write some code, it does a pretty decent job, otherwise it stays out of my way.
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#4The AI Assistant in JetBrains is the best I've encountered. In Pycharm, specifically. I've tried using my OpenAI subscription directly to use GPT4, but copy-pasting between the browser and the lack of context (that GPT has of my code) is limiting. I've tried Copilot, but it just produces large amounts of junk code, and it gets irritating. JetBrain's AI Assistant is built into the IDE I use, it melds well with all the…
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Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#5OpenAI API key with GPT4 plus aider[1]: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
For reference against the actual product called “Copilot”, I would say this is actually useful, vs Copilot which I would use words like “glorified autocomplete” and “slightly better intellisense” to describe. Only really good for saving you some rote typing periodically.
The primary limit with “aider” is the GPT4 context window, so really it’s about learning to work within that as its only learning curve.
I have been curious about sourcegraph’s “Cody” product if anyone here has tried it
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#6I've been pretty happy with Codeium free offering. it does good context completions for me, and based on context, gives me the next bits I'm about to type.
I used cody at work, and the best feature for that I found was chore work - I could highlight a struct (for example) and give it instructions how to transform it and it did a good job there.
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#7In addition to paid subscriptions, you might want to consider running an LLM locally. One of a number of projects enabling this approach is "continue" - https://github.com/continuedev/continue
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#8I don't think it's the best assistant by ability, but if you're like me and you bought a lifetime Tabnine subscription for $29 when it debuted on HN in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393364), maybe reinstall it and try it out. I've been using it and I would say it is better than nothing.
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#9I’m pretty happy with Continue, which is a free VS Code extension. You can use an OpenAI API key or local models. I don’t think it does autocomplete, just pair programming, but I’ve found AI autocomplete to be more of a distraction than anything, so it’s good for me.
Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
#10Cursor is really great. It will do codebase search as well as actually apply the code it suggest from the chat interface. Some other neat features like checking your staged changes for bugs.