Really hope I don't get my open source maintainer Pro plan bumped down to free.
The FAQ entry about the free tier for open source maintainers is still live here: https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...
GitHub Copilot is now available for free
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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#52Earlier 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…
> AI is an apex technology amongst technologies designed to further enrich the elite and strengthen the power structure.
This one I somewhat agree with. Ideally these technologies are owned by nobody.
Though it does give me hope when I see Facebook of all companies leading the charge in regards to open sourcing AI. The fact that their business model incentivizes them to do this, is good (lucky) for everyone, whatever your other opinions of the company are.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree with that. I think AI may not make us dumber in every way, but it certainly will make us dumber when it comes to being able to plot out independent, large-scale solutions. We will be as dependent on AI for certain sorts of decision-making as we are on water treatment to treat our polluted water sources.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#54Before GitHub Copilot was a paid feature. This only shows to the Cursor team that they are going to the right direction.
The slow elephant enterprise GitHub will never be as good/fast as Cursor, they had their chance but they have joined the party of "keeping the devs under our umbrella with free features" too late.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#55Earlier 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…
This is a very good starting list.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#56I 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?
Private repos exist for a reason. It's reasonable that if you don't want humans seeing your code that machines should also not see your code.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#57I 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.
I had been using JetBrains (Webstorm and PyCharm before that) for years now and just switched to Cursor a few months ago. I never liked the way AI copilots tacked onto the IDE worked and preferred to just use standalone ChatGPT. Been very happy with the Cursor experience, big improvement in UX from my perspective.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#58If 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?
M1 MacBook Pro is sufficient for a Qwen model.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#59Earlier 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…
Thank you for your reply.
I am currently having a ride with chatgpt allowing me to write applications at 3 times the speed compared to before (where before may be "never" for some technologies) and I am happy for everyone contributing to this.
But all your points are well grounded, I will have to figure out a way to think about them, while keeping my day job.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#60If 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…
Tried a few models and was extremely disappointed by how dumb the completions are. Basically useless. What local ollama-available models do you recommend?