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

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Post by windowshopping »

thekevan wrote: post #11

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…

The giant typos in "assistant" throughout the page give this such an unprofessional feel.

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

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

geepytee wrote: post #47
mypalmike wrote: post #7

In addition to paid subscriptions, you might want to consider running an LLM locally. One of a number of projects enabling this approach is "continue" - https://github.com/continuedev/continue

The issue with local IMO is that you'll going to have to compromise on quality. And I really don't want to waste my time talking with inferior models when better models are widely available.

Yeah, at the time of writing this comment it feels like if you want to easily convince me that your local LLM is good enough, just do a side by side comparison of prompts with your LLM vs GPT4. It doesn’t even have to be better. It just has to be kind of in the same ballpark

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

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Post by henry2023 »

geepytee wrote: post #56
bernaferrari wrote: post #46

For me, personally, Copilot is the best because you are typing and it is just suggesting. Very often I type something, wait 2 seconds for its answer (knowing it is going to get it right 80% of the time) and press tab. Sure, it misses a ton, but I see it as a great autocorrect that is always there trying to help. Now, copilot chat and everything else are very bad. I don't like them. If you are "intentional" I usually…

Have you ran into issues with Copilot where it does things like: - Doesn't close brackets / adds too many closing brackets - Spams completions while you're writing comments - Doesn't auto import the required libraries after accepting a suggestion - No multi cursor mode - Refuses to name variables - Refuses to trigger in the middle of a line - Lower quality code than ChatGPT (probably because they use a smaller model)…

I’d love to always know how much code I’m sending to a third party when using a tool like this.

What about autocompleting on sensitive files like .env or so.

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

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Post by spiffytech »

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.

Another option: Kagi's chat feature lets you choose Claude 3 Opus (or GPT-4 or Mistral).

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

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Post by bpc777 »

dimal wrote: post #9

I’m pretty happy with Continue, which is a free VS Code extension. You can use an OpenAI API key or local models. I don’t think it does autocomplete, just pair programming, but I’ve found AI autocomplete to be more of a distraction than anything, so it’s good for me.

The beta version includes autocomplete: https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/tab-autocomplete

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

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Post by geepytee »

drdaeman wrote: post #52

ChatGPT 4 with manual explanations and code snippets seem to work best so far. IDE-integrated tools have the potential, but are really immature yet. In particular, I haven't found any tools that can do either of the following: - Comprehend a large codebase. All assistants seem to have a pretty narrow scope for the context, like the current file or few of its neighbors. E.g. they can write some code that already exist…

This is great, going to incorporate this to our roadmap.

What else should an IDE integrated coding copilot be able to do?

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

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Post by pc86 »

geepytee wrote: post #66
drdaeman wrote: post #52

ChatGPT 4 with manual explanations and code snippets seem to work best so far. IDE-integrated tools have the potential, but are really immature yet. In particular, I haven't found any tools that can do either of the following: - Comprehend a large codebase. All assistants seem to have a pretty narrow scope for the context, like the current file or few of its neighbors. E.g. they can write some code that already exist…

This is great, going to incorporate this to our roadmap. What else should an IDE integrated coding copilot be able to do?

Who is "our?" Are you affiliated with OP in some way?

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

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Post by weikequ_ »

rob74 wrote: post #51
neves wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is a list of countries Claude is available: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8461763-where-can-...

Lots of countries in that list... but none from the EU :(

Also no Canada for some reason??

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

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Post by adl »

geepytee wrote: post #59
Filligree wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wasn't aware that it's not widely available but if you can't find it anywhere else, we have it available in our free tier on Double: https://double.bot

Are you planning to offer plugins for other IDEs, like IntelliJ?
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