GitHub Copilot is now available for free • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by semiinfinitely » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

soon: copilot generates a comment recommending a SaaS product 25% of the time. Pay $5 month to disable ads-comments

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by paxys » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

Really hope I don't get my open source maintainer Pro plan bumped down to free.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by verdverm » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

I'd prefer something where I can bring my own model and pay the API costs directly, rather than yet another $20+/m/dev fee

The free plan is not going to work for professional coding

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by itronitron » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

vouaobrasil wrote: post #6

I actually closed by Github account because I don't want to support AI or have my code trained on AI. Now I'm extra happy I shut it down.

i recently learned about sourcehut.org which has "No AI features whatsoever"

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by rvz » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

Microsoft (unsurprisingly) has won the race to zero.

We have had them 'embrace' the wider developer and open-source ecosystem by buying GitHub.

Then they have 'extended' this with partnerships and deep developer integrations in VSCode and exclusive partnerships with OpenAI which in the background was used to build the best tools on the Microsoft platform with added enhancements and extensions.

Now in the new intelligence age, we finally have the definition of what 'Extinguish' looks like to competitors wanting to compete with the best tools available, For free.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by outlore » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

asdev wrote: post #5

I ditched Copilot for Cursor and never looked back. Cursor might be the only other AI product with product market fit than ChatGPT, it's that good

I just downloaded Cursor yesterday.

I was wondering if you have used Copilot Edits and can compare it to Cursor Composer? Is Cursor much more superior when it comes to multi-file edits?

Do you also have tips for how to give Cursor some documentation, is there a way to make it RAG on a folder of markdown documentation files?

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by snide » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

Anyone using the Neovim plugin and suddenly starting to get rate limit errors? I'm already on pro, but it's asking me to upgrade to pro in Neovim?

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by hipadev23 » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

asdev wrote: post #5

I ditched Copilot for Cursor and never looked back. Cursor might be the only other AI product with product market fit than ChatGPT, it's that good

Yeah I'm happy to check it out, Cursor isn't perfect, but at least it feels like it was created by people who code for a living versus people tasked to inject a LLM into an IDE.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by kdaigle » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #12

Really hope I don't get my open source maintainer Pro plan bumped down to free.

It didn't. If you had a complimentary Copilot Pro plan, you'll continue to have it so you're good!

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by beyang » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #13

I'd prefer something where I can bring my own model and pay the API costs directly, rather than yet another $20+/m/dev fee The free plan is not going to work for professional coding

FYI, you can do that with Cody + Ollama. A good portion of our user community does exactly that: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/local-code-completion-with-olla...