What's the license of the project? There is no license file in the repo
FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
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Re: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
#22I would love to build a free and oss clone of GitHub using things like this. Kudos to moyix
It might be interesting to look into existing projects like Gitea or SourceHut. Gitea specifically seems to have a similar look and feel as GitHub.
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#23Tangential, maybe someone here knows; how complicated would be to implement an autocompleter that just understands syntax + patterns and can offer me suggestions but based on my own stuff? Like what is the simplest version of Copilot that doesn't require huge amounts of training but just does a decent job at recognizing tokens and trying to fill in the structure based on some input code. e.g: `app.get('/',|` {}`, maybe with multiple choices grepped from my own data ranked by occurences. Is this too extreme it needs a multibillion parameter AI model to achieve? Does anything like this exist? Like an auto-snippet thing but contextual and token replacing.
Re: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
#24Tangential, maybe someone here knows; how complicated would be to implement an autocompleter that just understands syntax + patterns and can offer me suggestions but based on my own stuff? Like what is the simplest version of Copilot that doesn't require huge amounts of training but just does a decent job at recognizing tokens and trying to fill in the structure based on some input code. e.g: `app.get('/',|` {}`, may…
To do this in a way that’s actually useful is hard. Microsoft has had Intellisense, JetBrains have autocomplete in Intellij and other products. Both have big teams and decades of work put into them, and still and great, hence the ML approach being tried now.
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#25I don't understand the point of dedicating so many resources just so that you can have a Clipper add-on second-guess your code and make bad suggestions.
Copilot is basically copying-from-stack-overflow on steroids. Maybe it should be called Copy-a-lot.
Whatever. Regardless of copying mechanisms I expect my fellow developers to understand every suggestion made by such tools.
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#26I don't understand the point of dedicating so many resources just so that you can have a Clipper add-on second-guess your code and make bad suggestions.
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#27I don't understand the point of dedicating so many resources just so that you can have a Clipper add-on second-guess your code and make bad suggestions.
Copilot has given me great utility and increased my productivity a lot. I constantly get surprised and amazed by the suggestions. A self-hosted version would be awesome.
Re: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
#28What's the license of the project? There is no license file in the repo
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Re: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
#29Awesome work, I made a similar project which is making a cost effective and privacy focused alternative to OpenAI text generation that can be switched to in a one line/easy way because it's API compatible https://text-generator.io/blog/over-10x-openai-cost-savings-... also works for generating code too so would be excited for someone to try that out too.
Re: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
#30Tangential, maybe someone here knows; how complicated would be to implement an autocompleter that just understands syntax + patterns and can offer me suggestions but based on my own stuff? Like what is the simplest version of Copilot that doesn't require huge amounts of training but just does a decent job at recognizing tokens and trying to fill in the structure based on some input code. e.g: `app.get('/',|` {}`, may…
For sane, modern languages like C# and Java, autocomplete has worked somewhere between adequate and amazingly well for a long time already.
I think it used to be kind of usable also in VB6 also, at least that is how I remember it.
Golang and Typescript seems to have good support too now.
But for just the thing you mention above you could go a long way with live templates or what it is called in different IDEs, or just text templates with variables like the Rails guys used to use in their demos.