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GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by acc_297 »

Interesting, I cancelled my plan a couple weeks ago so I suppose it's nice to know my vscode plugin won't stop working at the end of the month.

If I ever pay for a different AI product I would prefer a pay-by-the-token plan vs a monthly charge since there are often spans of several weeks where I'm not using the tools at all.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by thot_experiment »

If anyone is looking for a free/local alternative Continue + Ollama is acceptable. If you're just doing run of the mill programming it will work well out of the box.

I'm glad it's open source so I was able to fix most of the issues I had with it and now my copy is in a great place. The documentation is in places many versions behind the actual code so it can be tough to figure out how to set things up when you're venturing off the beaten path. That all being said the granularity of control you have when using local models leads to an experience that's far better than Cursor/Copilot, I really enjoy that it reads my mind a lot of the time now (because I have prompt engineered it to know how I think).

Ultimately, isn't this just the way of things? https://thot-experiment.github.io/forever-problems/?set%20up...

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by JadoJodo »

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

Has anyone who uses an IDE (e.g., JetBrains, not a code editor) moved to Cursor? I've downloaded it a few times because everyone raves about it, but I've always come back almost immediately because editors can't reliably make changes across projects (among many other things)... What am I missing?

FWIW I use GoLand w/ Supermaven, currently.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by Diti »

fifilura wrote: post #10
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 don't want to support AI or have my code trained on AI. What are your arguments for this?

I have the same opinion as the person you replied to. My arguments are basically that I don’t support plagiarism, and LLMs/diffusion models of our generation have been trained on a massive corpus of copyrighted material, ignoring the fundamentals of the Berne Convention.

I belong to an internet community whose artists make for a third of its population – they are mostly hostile to generative art and never gave their consent for their art to be plagiarized, yet their artstyle end up in Civitai and their content shows up on haveibeentrained.com.

Personally, my hostility towards generative art would stop if training was opt-in, and I would use GitHub again if it, AT LEAST, allowed members to opt-OUT.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by j0hnyl »

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 need to try it again. When I tried it I found it was kind of overblown and went back to copilot. I also wasn't sure whether to maintain two IDEs - Cursor for scaffolding new projects, and VScode for daily driving.
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