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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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.

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You are welcome. I probably am not nearly as good as you. It was just a few programs I made in my spare time like some games and a Sudoku solver. I am sure if I were elevated to your coding level, my departure from GitHub would be a true loss. I hope one day I can reach a tenth of your level.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Copilot in VSCode is so far behind Windsurf, not terribly excited about this and still happy to pay for a Codeium pro account. My only fear is someone buying them and screwing up model access, but maybe it’s fine if that is Anthropic. GPT-4 is terrible at coding and o-1 isn’t tell tiene for practical use.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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 ven…

On what kind of hardware/GPU are you running that locally?

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't want to support AI or have my code trained on AI. What are your arguments for this?

1. I believe AI is detrimental. It makes us go too fast. It's all about production now, pure efficiency over individuals. 2. AI is too dangerous. Whatever innovations used for benign applications will be eventually used for more dangerous applications such as advanced genetic engineering and the military. 3. AI uses too much energy. It's disrespectful to the resources that we have. 4. AI is an apex technology amongst…

I strongly agree with your points 1, 3, 4 and 5, and I would add another one:

7. This idea of "AI" and how it is expected to be used is detrimental to human intellectual development, particularly for junior generations, and the presumption that AI will solve everything is what actually may bring us closer to the world of Idiocracy.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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post #28

I feel like this free plan is just enough to get someone hooked and require them to upgrade to paid. Like, imagine GPS navigation wasn't widespread and there was a paid service that gave you 20 free trips. Eventually your normal navigation skills would atrophy and you'd be obliged to purchase.

Some will want to pay more for better service, but it seems likely to be plenty for people who aren't full-time programmers and don't write code every day?

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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?

The actual killer feature for me is the much superior autocompletion, Cursor always suggests an edit inline once I stopped typing, without having me to type a prompt to ask it to do stuff. And it feels faster than GH Copilot, too.

For us who prefer coding ourselves (instead of telling LLMs to do stuff and review the result) it is much much better.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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That free plan sounds too limited for continuous use. Is this the sort of plan that will convert non-users into paying customers? Compared to other paid plans for various AI services, this one seems like it's relatively the most enticing.

Yes, this is meant to expose people to Copilot and convince them to subscribe.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Copilot in VSCode is so far behind Windsurf, not terribly excited about this and still happy to pay for a Codeium pro account. My only fear is someone buying them and screwing up model access, but maybe it’s fine if that is Anthropic. GPT-4 is terrible at coding and o-1 isn’t tell tiene for practical use.

For anyone else who never heard of Windsurf, it seems this was announced a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127882

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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.

This is the main sticking point for me, I'm not leaving JetBrains anytime soon. GitHub Copilot + Aider handle my needs beautifully and while I wish Aider had deep IDE integration I can work around that (Yes, I know about the "AI!" command thing, it's a cool idea but sucks in practice). Aider in browser mode has pretty much replaced my back and forth to ChatGPT/Claude's web UI to the point that I'm considering going API-only for both of those (currently pay for the $20/mo plan for each).
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