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Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by YotamShinan »

KrishnaShripad wrote: post #56

The problem I had with Tabnine was insane memory consumption to the point where my Mac crawled to a halt. I had to keep killing Tabnine process or just uninstall the plugin. Copilot has been a breeze. I really want to give Tabnine a shot again but I doubt if they can get it to perform as well as Copilot does.

Hi there, Tabnine's DevRel here. While Copilot serves its code completions through a monolith model, too big to be processed locally (and therefore your code goes into MSFT servers by default), Tabnine's approach is keeping the code it helps writing - private and secured. The way it's done is by using 12 standalone models, which can run locally (but then it'll sometimes consume excessive computing power) OR in encrypted cloud mode, which takes off most of these memory and CPU/GPU resources. You can easily configure the mode you wish to work with through the Tabnine Hub (find the toggle radio button under "Public Model").

I don't when was the last time you've tried coding with Tabnine in the background, but I sure hope that now, with the release of our next-generation abilities you'll give it another go :)

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by skohan »

nlh wrote: post #55

I might be a super weird use case BUT believe it or not I use both Tabnine and Copilot and I kinda like the combo. Here's how it works: I use Copilot for its multi-line code generation. It's vastly superior. (Sorry Tabnine). Gotta give credit to Tabnine for kicking off this space -- they had a multi-year headstart on Copilot and it was pretty cool when it first launched, but it just doesn't come close to Copilot. Ope…

Call me old fashioned, but I use my brain for mutli-line code generation

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by akaike »

skohan wrote: post #63
nlh wrote: post #55

I might be a super weird use case BUT believe it or not I use both Tabnine and Copilot and I kinda like the combo. Here's how it works: I use Copilot for its multi-line code generation. It's vastly superior. (Sorry Tabnine). Gotta give credit to Tabnine for kicking off this space -- they had a multi-year headstart on Copilot and it was pretty cool when it first launched, but it just doesn't come close to Copilot. Ope…

Call me old fashioned, but I use my brain for mutli-line code generation

Great, you are the best, super cool! Go eat an apple

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by YotamShinan »

owlbynight wrote: post #18

I had to uninstall Tabnine because its resource usage was unacceptable. Hopefully they've addressed that, because it was using way too much of my CPU at times that it shouldn't have been.

Hi, Tabnine's DevRel here. I'm glad to say that we have addressed this issue: You can now easily opt-in to encrypted cloud mode through the Tabnine hub (find it under Public Model section). This option takes off most of the computing resources used to run Tabnine. That's just one out of many other improvements we've been working on lately, that are now generally available. I hope you'll give it another go! :)

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by rane »

daef wrote: post #62

Tabnine and Copilot feel like the endboss for various plagiarism checkers. I'm curious how universities will adapt to this.

How have universities adapted to copy-pasting code off of StackOverflow?

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

nevster wrote: post #27
thejosh wrote: post #15

I really want to love Tabine. I really, really do. I gave it a fair chance, let it index my private personal projects, ran it on my personal machine to see how it worked. The results are... not great. I'm using IntelliJ, and Tabnine is arrogant enough to believe that their autocomplete is superior to the libraries autocomplete, even when completely wrong or it has no idea of its autocomplete. These are opensource lib…

Seconded. Tabnine's suggestions were way worse than IntelliJ's suggestions. It was very annoying. Uninstalled it after a giving it a good try.

Same here. I gave it a go for a while, thinking I must be holding it wrong or something.

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by jollybean »

nevster wrote: post #27
thejosh wrote: post #15

I really want to love Tabine. I really, really do. I gave it a fair chance, let it index my private personal projects, ran it on my personal machine to see how it worked. The results are... not great. I'm using IntelliJ, and Tabnine is arrogant enough to believe that their autocomplete is superior to the libraries autocomplete, even when completely wrong or it has no idea of its autocomplete. These are opensource lib…

Seconded. Tabnine's suggestions were way worse than IntelliJ's suggestions. It was very annoying. Uninstalled it after a giving it a good try.

I uninstalled T9 for this reason: bad suggestions superseding the regular autocomplete, this is just not good.

I have yet to compare to copilot.

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by alisiddiq »

memorable wrote: post #41
Crazyontap wrote: post #12

Having just purchased copilot and a user of Tabnine in the past (using Phpstorm) here is my own personal opinion. The suggestions offered by Tabnine weren't anywhere good as copilot - not even by a long shot (at least for PHP and Javascript). But almost an year has passed since I used this so I don't know if they have had a major update and the results are improved, but previously 1 out of 10 tabnine suggestions were…

I 100% agree with this.

Whereas I only agree with it 78.65%

Re: Next-generation AI models

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Post by drcongo »

I've been using TabNine for years and, at least with Python, the suggestions are superb, and often uncanny - it occasionally suggests the variable name I was thinking of using before it's appeared anywhere in the code. I love TabNine dearly, but the Sublime Text plugin for it has basically been left to rot which is really sad. It doesn't integrate at all well with ST4.
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