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Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by Beltalowda »

netr0ute wrote: post #8
notamy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's the criteria for being considered "a maintainer of a popular open source project"? The FAQ [0] says > A maintainer of a popular open source project is defined as someone who has write or admin access to one or more of the *most popular open source projects* on GitHub (emphasis added) [0] https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...

That's the problem, what is a "most popular project?"

It goes on to say "Simply visit the GitHub Copilot subscription page to see if you are one of the open source maintainers that meet our criteria for a complimentary subscription"

When I go to https://github.com/github-copilot/free_signup it says:

" Congratulations! You are eligible to use GitHub Copilot for free.

Thanks for being a part of our open source and education communities. GitHub Copilot uses the Codex AI model to offer coding suggestions."

I have a project with about 3k stars, and regularly contribute to another project ~4k stars (Where I'm also the primary maintainer, although it's not on my account), as well as some things in with hundred and dozens of stars.

I don't how high up that is in the ranking, although given that most projects get 0 stars I suspect it's probably higher than you'd might expect.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by emacdona »

Has anyone been able to sign up since this announcement?

I get to a "Confirm your payment details" screen, but there is no further action I can take (ie: no button to press or link to click to "confirm"). It does say "You will be billed $100/year starting August 20, 2022" -- but when I view my "settings", it tells me I haven't signed up for copilot.

I tried various browsers, including Edge on Windows 10 sans plugins (the combination I would expect to be the most supported for MS owned github.com).

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by gabagool »

netr0ute wrote: post #4

I can't tell if I can get it for free or not other than that vague statement about subscriptions.

> We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.

> Do you want to start using GitHub Copilot today? Get started with a 60-day free trial, and check out our pricing plans. It’s free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source software.

Seems pretty clear. If you're willing to do your own research (aka going to the CoPilot site): https://github.com/github-copilot/tp_signup, you'll see that pricing reflected here as well as the date when the free period ends, which is August 22nd.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by josephcsible »

dannytatom wrote: post #54

I've enjoyed using it for free, but not sure it's worth the $10/mo yet. When it works great, it's a nice-to-have for speeding up development but has yet to give me anything I wouldn't be able to just write myself. And when I wish it would give me the answer to something I don't know how to do, it spits out something very wrong. Also feels kind of icky to train on open source projects and then charge for the output.

> Also feels kind of icky to train on open source projects and then charge for the output.

Yeah, this feels like the same nonsense that scientific journal publishers pull. If your product only has value because of what we made, it's completely unfair to not pay us for our work and then to turn around and charge us to use the output.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by lysecret »

Actually, I quite like it. Especially for these repetitive things one can forget. Stuff like there is a deleted field in one table, usually you would write an sql query like

   .filter(table.deleted==False)
nothing complicated, but one tends to forget it. So i got into the habit of starting a new line in whatever query I am building and see what copilot thinks I forgot.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by lelag »

dannytatom wrote: post #54

I've enjoyed using it for free, but not sure it's worth the $10/mo yet. When it works great, it's a nice-to-have for speeding up development but has yet to give me anything I wouldn't be able to just write myself. And when I wish it would give me the answer to something I don't know how to do, it spits out something very wrong. Also feels kind of icky to train on open source projects and then charge for the output.

Given the cost of the infrastructure needed to run those large language models, it's very likely that Microsoft is still operating copilot at a loss. I don't see an issue with it being a paid service as it is a costly service to provide.

What I pity however is that there's no free tier for hobbyists as paying a 10 usd monthly subscription wont make sense when you only code occasionally. For professionals using it everyday, 10 usd / month is inconsequential.

I don't think that would have costed them much more to offer a free allowance to cover say an average coding session of 8 hours per month.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by baby »

Insta buy for me (expense hopefully). I am just continuously mind blown by it, and I quickly notice and get frustrated when it's not enabled. It really is giving coders superpowers.

EDIT: looks like I'm getting it for free because of my contributions to open source o.o dope!

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by baby »

dannytatom wrote: post #54

I've enjoyed using it for free, but not sure it's worth the $10/mo yet. When it works great, it's a nice-to-have for speeding up development but has yet to give me anything I wouldn't be able to just write myself. And when I wish it would give me the answer to something I don't know how to do, it spits out something very wrong. Also feels kind of icky to train on open source projects and then charge for the output.

> Also feels kind of icky to train on open source projects and then charge for the output.

"open source is great, except when it's used in a way I don't like"

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by Beltalowda »

aviraldg wrote: post #24
bil7 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> suggest patterns in the same codebase that you're working Sometimes, with variable results. I think I've only observed it guess patterns from the current directory > Does copilot work for shell scripts? Yes, it gave me this earlier today while editing my .zshrc: # kill a process on a given port killport() { lsof -i :$1 | awk 'NR!=1 {print $2}' | xargs kill }

Can't wait for someone to integrate this into a shell. Does anyone know if such a project exists?

"Copilot, how do I fork in a shell?"

  :() { :|: } :&
Thanks copil[user disconnected].
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