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Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by thekevan »

This isn't completely answering the question you asked but https://www.blackbox.ai/ was my favorite after testing out some free ones.

I know I liked it better than TabNine, CodeGPT and Codeium in VS Code. I'm pretty sure I tested a few others from the top of list of extensions when you search the extension marketplace, but I forgot which ones.

Blackbox just seems more intuitive in use and had better answers. They don't have many followers on Twitter, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by cheema33 »

I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side for a few days. And I have now decided to cancel all AI subscriptions except Claude 3.

For software development work, no other model comes close.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by simpaticoder »

Was an early adopter of Github Copilot but I quickly turned it off because of the noise. I really like AI for "gap filling" (for example, I used AI extensively to help me write my bash deployment scripts for simpatico.io) and porting tasks, both of which lend themselves to copy/paste into a browser.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by Filligree »

cheema33 wrote: post #12

I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side f…

How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by barbazoo »

vector_rotcev wrote: post #2

The AI Assistant in JetBrains is the best I've encountered. In Pycharm, specifically. I've tried using my OpenAI subscription directly to use GPT4, but copy-pasting between the browser and the lack of context (that GPT has of my code) is limiting. I've tried Copilot, but it just produces large amounts of junk code, and it gets irritating. JetBrain's AI Assistant is built into the IDE I use, it melds well with all the…

TIL that there's also Copilot plugins for Jetbrain IDEs

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by tomwojcik »

Filligree wrote: post #14
cheema33 wrote: post #12

I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side f…

How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.

Isn't it available via bedrock already?

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by Filligree »

tomwojcik wrote: post #16
Filligree wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.

Isn't it available via bedrock already?

Not sure what bedrock is, but last time I looked at their website it claimed it isn't available in my region.

I'm in Ireland, so I interpreted that as "Not out yet".

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by whereismyacc »

Filligree wrote: post #14
cheema33 wrote: post #12

I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side f…

How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.

I've only used it through third party services but I think it's available both on their site and as an API. Can't confirm though, I'm in Europe.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

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Post by AlexanderNull »

Neither Github Copilot nor GPT4 are worth your time. At best they partially guess the name of a function you're thinking about typing, at worst they give you almost a correct answer. I've been shocked by how close those models will get to almost understanding what you're attempting to do, while still fundamentally getting it wrong. Last month, after a while of realizing I was spending more time correcting suggestions than I was saving I stopped using them and will need to see some major improvements before I can feel comfortable using them again.

Re: Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

#20

Post by drewnick »

Phind released a new model I think about a week or two back and I added their VS code plug-in.

I really like it because it makes using GPT 4 or their proprietary model much easier than copying and pasting between a browser and VS code.

It is a paid subscription, but it includes 500 messages per day, which is way better than the time window on ChatGPT for me.

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