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Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by capableweb »

lveillard wrote: post #403

Guys you're getting a lot of bad comments for one simple reason. You failed your delivery. 1) You should have managed the expectations of the users in a better way. Tell them it will become a paid feature from the begining, so nobody gets surprised 2) The way everyone unsderstood this today was too aggresive. An infinite warning in visual studio saying "hey, i've stop working, please sign up and pay or uninstall me".…

Also, the neovim simply stopped working, without any notice what so ever. Wasn't until I checked HN I figured out why it suddenly stopped working.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by blue0bird »

Hamcha wrote: post #195

I've been using Copilot non-stop on every hobby project I have ever since they've let me in (2021/07/13) and I am honestly flabbergasted they think it's worth 10$/mo. My experience using it till this day is the following: - It's an amazing all-rounder autocomplete for most boilerplate code. Generally anything that someone who's spent 5 minutes reading the code can do, Copilot can do just as well. - It's terrible if y…

I've been using Copilot for almost 10 months, useful when learning new code but after a while become a bit more advanced auto complete.

I think it is good for short lines, repeating tasks; for example when writing tests and want to assert different fields, assert string, int, etc; for these sort of lines was really good and fast.

my main problems: 1. sometimes make a horrible mistake, takes couple of minutes to understand 2. repeat the same mistake over and over 3. adding a single tab take a bit of time, had to copy & paste tab to avoid copilot suggestion!

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by iblaine »

I used github copilot for a week, got some good laughs, then never used it again. Working at a publicly traded healthcare company, it worries me that my IDE has the technical ability to snoop on my code. More than anything else, github copilot is a cool parlor trick, in its current form. Surely it'll improve over time.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by feet »

bluelightning2k wrote: post #100

My unpopular take: most comments here are super entitled. To paraphrase: "sure it's minblowing and the biggest productivity gain in years, but I want it FREE". Yes. You got used to it being free. And now it's not. But $10/mo is a steal. It's more than fair and far, far less than they could get. And no. They don't owe you anything. In fact, they probably host your code (often free), and less directly provide your IDE…

Ah yes because they provide some things for free they must be entitled to use the code everyone else wrote to train their models and profit from

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by matthewmacleod »

Hamcha wrote: post #195

I've been using Copilot non-stop on every hobby project I have ever since they've let me in (2021/07/13) and I am honestly flabbergasted they think it's worth 10$/mo. My experience using it till this day is the following: - It's an amazing all-rounder autocomplete for most boilerplate code. Generally anything that someone who's spent 5 minutes reading the code can do, Copilot can do just as well. - It's terrible if y…

A developer easily costs $100 an hour. This means that if Copilot saves you more than 360 seconds in a month it’s paid for itself.

I’m honestly flabbergasted that anybody would think it isn’t worth $10 a month, despite its many serious flaws.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by esfandia »

So it's free for students... I wonder what consequences it will have for coding assignments and projects. At the minimum I hope it will also be free for instructors so they learn to know what to expect and how to design assignments that can't be auto-solved by Copilot.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by jameshart »

attentive wrote: post #421
lveillard wrote: post #403

Guys you're getting a lot of bad comments for one simple reason. You failed your delivery. 1) You should have managed the expectations of the users in a better way. Tell them it will become a paid feature from the begining, so nobody gets surprised 2) The way everyone unsderstood this today was too aggresive. An infinite warning in visual studio saying "hey, i've stop working, please sign up and pay or uninstall me".…

Worse yet, it's not available for the Orgs. So now each individual developer using it for work suddenly has to either pony up $10/month or figure out how to expense it.

I’m already terrified how many developers have been working on proprietary code bases with copilot, having an extension in their editor upload all their employer’s proprietary code to Microsoft, who then share it with OpenAI - then they’ve taken code OpenAI and Microsoft sent back to them, of unknown authorship, and added it into their code.

And now those devs are going to have to go to their boss and explain all the ways they’ve opened their company up to liability?

This should be hilarious.

Re: GitHub Copilot is generally available

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Post by fpgaminer »

2fast4you wrote: post #198
bluelightning2k wrote: post #100

My unpopular take: most comments here are super entitled. To paraphrase: "sure it's minblowing and the biggest productivity gain in years, but I want it FREE". Yes. You got used to it being free. And now it's not. But $10/mo is a steal. It's more than fair and far, far less than they could get. And no. They don't owe you anything. In fact, they probably host your code (often free), and less directly provide your IDE…

> ...it's minblowing and the biggest productivity gain in years... I wouldn't go that far. It's a pretty big help in repetitive/boiler plate code and it's pretty good at intelligently transforming data, but I've found it gets in the way more often than it helps for every other case.

Copilot has written RegEx's and SQL for me from a textual description; or sometimes just from context. That's worth every penny not to wade through RegEx again.
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