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Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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Would be nice to try, until I got banned yesterday for trying to connect two Colab runtimes together via SOCKS5. Turns out connecting to any proxy at all immediately suspends your Colab usage for "suspected abusive activity"!

appeal in product and we're usually pretty forgiving

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

#152

I saw this announcement a few days ago and I am enthusiastic. Even though I only use Colab 3 or 4 hours a month, it is a good product and so I happily pay $10/month for it. I hope Codey is available on the $10 plan. I have been using CoPilot for about a year (mostly in Emacs, sometimes in VSCode) and I find it very useful, so I am especially excited to see what Google offers. I also find myself using Bing+ChatGPT a l…

we'll start on Pro+, but plan to support Pro as well, including w/ autocompletions (those may slip if cost/usage comes in too high, but so far in dogfooding it's very reasonable).

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #24
post #7

I'm tired of Google announcing something in the future; wake me up when it's actually out.

we debated this; this is going to be a sequential rollout based on availability/capacity, and it seemed better to broadcast it was coming earlier b/c we're not going to have a "launch event" moment.

You could announce it when it's available to at least one user. "In the coming months" kills the excitement.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #94

> "soon introduce" This looks like an announcement of an announcement, which isn't on topic for HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... On HN, there's no harm in waiting for the actual thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Google should learn from Apple and their prior Gmail launch how the announcement should have a clear call to action. Else they created buzz that was not capitalized on.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

#158

The way that I do this right now is use Copilot in IntelliJ for notebooks that I execute on a remote server. This does the job.

What kind of remote server do you use?

IntelliJ can connect to a Jupyter server. That's what I use. As for hardware, it's just some generic Linux box with lots of RAM - nothing special.

And strictly I use Pycharm from the IntelliJ suite.

If you mount the remote FS locally (I use NFS) you can even stop writing locally and continue on your server's Jupyter web interface.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

#159
post #94

> "soon introduce" This looks like an announcement of an announcement, which isn't on topic for HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... On HN, there's no harm in waiting for the actual thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Google should learn from Apple and their prior Gmail launch how the announcement should have a clear call to action. Else they created buzz that was not capitalized on.

It's all about the share price when it comes to Google these days. Don't think they're concerned with long term gain.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

#160
post #148
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How far away is the VS code plugin?

Which one? If you're talking Palm 2, I couldn't say, I spend my days trying to convince everyone at Google to prioritize and support ME first ;)

This one, Codey - from the headline I thought that was what was being pre announced. It’s hard to do AI assisted coding if you’re not in everyone’s editor and your competitor already is.
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