Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

github.blog

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

331–340 of 771 posts

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#331

Post by throwaway290 »

bastardoperator wrote: post #314
ilovetux wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be Microsoft has historically been anti-opensource, but not anti-developer. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter and in my experience throughout the 90s and early 2000s their developer ecosystem (aka Visual Studio) has really been first-class. I am not a fan of Microsoft because they have been openly hostile to open source,…

Is there anyone doing more for open source today? I hear you, but it's clear they've changed that tune dramatically.

By monetising OSS and sidestepping copyleft licenses to suggest you the same code repackaged as part of proprietary autocomplete for which you pay MS and not original authors?

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#332

Post by awestroke »

qwertox wrote: post #320

> ChatGPT-like experience in your editor with GitHub Copilot Chat The best thing about VS Code is how you can click on the tab of the current editor and drag it out into a new self-contained window, so that you can move it to another monitor. This is such an optimal use of screen real estate. I will drag out Copilot from the main VS Code window to my right monitor, have the main editor in the center monitor, and Goog…

What's your point?

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#334

Post by filmgirlcw »

dheera wrote: post #266
RulerOf wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The domain name on that authorization prompt was more than enough to get me to decline. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if it were at next.github.com.

Time to register a rogue Github Pages site at next.github.com?

Next.GitHub.com redirects to GitHubnext.com fwiw.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#335

Post by goldfeld »

naillo wrote: post #316
goldfeld wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost a decade ago I jumped ship as a programmer for several reasons, and since '18 I am definitely not coding at all. Friends and family have wondered much at my path and letting go of what has become the one promised career for ever larger parts of the population, and making my inroads into the arts and literature, finally settling a bit with the profession of writing on many capacities. Now I look back more gadly…

HNs version of ads

Point taken, though I have long thought the ads were officially the hiring and also the Launch HNs that are now popping left and right from YC W23, and every single one naturally abou ML.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#336

Post by withinboredom »

jackosdev wrote: post #277
gonehome wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re strategically exceptional, but beyond that a lot of their products (or subsidiaries) are also dominant for good reason (vscode, GitHub). O365 and the product integration there (teams) is why they crushed slack despite slack’s headstart. Slack sold out to languish at salesforce while Microsoft will now just own that space. Cherry picking a Microsoft app for macOS is like looking at iTunes on windows, it’s not…

vscode is an incredible piece of software, better than all the paid options in my opinion, the amount of features they pump out month to month is outstanding, just a bit slow due to electron. I never understood why they put so much effort into a free product that I run from Linux and Mac, but I'm happily paying the copilot subscription so it all makes sense now.

You honestly had me do a double take. Copilot costs money? Maybe I get it through some other thing, but its been free for me as long as I can remember. It's wrong so often that I generally keep it on because it's entertaining. I wouldn't pay for it.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#337

Post by siva7 »

ignoramous wrote: post #250
daydream wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. I agree with this. And what I think is so fascinating is how much they left on the table during this very same time. Steven Sinofsky's Hardcore Software substack is an amazing read[1]. And it really shows how much they got wrong as well as how much they got right. MS is firing on all cylinders. B…

> GitHub acquisition are looking like genius moves right now Surprising that AWS didn't compete for its acquisition. They stand to lose a bunch too. That said, except for OS and Browsers, it is all coming together for Microsoft, including their XBox division.

Google competed but they weren't willing to pay the price tag. Microsoft understood better how powerful Githubs potential was at the time. Github was likely Microsofts best acquisition in the last two decades.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#338

Post by withinboredom »

quijoteuniv wrote: post #278
gonehome wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is a so well positioned on this I think Silicon Valley has forgotten what it looks like when they don’t have a horrible CEO. When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. There’s a massive paradigm shift we’re just at the beginning of and Microsoft has been putting pieces in place for the last couple of years. Nadella has really turn…

Masterstroke is that they are including Linux, in WSL also in windows server. They are 1 step away from being a Linux distribution that runs legacy windows software within containers :D

If only they could get ipv6 working in WSL so that shenanigans[1] aren't required.

[1]: https://github.com/withinboredom/ipv6-wsl

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#339

Post by nemo44x »

Wow, Microsoft was so ahead of the curve when they bought Github. They saw this coming and knew they had to acquire them to make it into this kind of thing. Just absolutely impressive execution here. Especially since Github would not have been able to do this on its own. Just an absolute perfect acquisition here. They don't often go right, but when they do so much new value is created for everyone.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

#340

Post by photochemsyn »

drdrek wrote: post #167

I would love to hear from other people here but I tried it for a while and dropped my subscription. For short things it was nice, but the larger the suggestion the worst it got. I found myself constantly mentally debugging the output it suggested, I do not know if it was faster but I was mentally exhausted by it, unable to go for long periods of time. Dumb code completion is predictable, I know I'll need to press dow…

That's been my (limited) experience, you have to debug its output and if you don't you have problems later. Pasting CoPilot's code into ChatGPT was sort of interesting but not really a time-saver, although pretty useful for understanding new concepts. Ultimately I'd still have to go read the documentation to actually understand how to use something new correctly however. Not really sure if it's worth $ for.

Where it is pretty useful I think is in examining large chunks of poorly commented code bases, where you're using CoPilot to generate comments describing what the code is supposed to be doing, i.e. '#here we ..'.

Post reply on HN