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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by meta_x_ai »

thot_experiment wrote: post #33

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…

A software developer's time is much more precious than wasting time on sub-optimal models.

Open Weights models has it's place (in training custom agents and custom services), but if you are knowledge worker, using a model even 5% less than SOTA is extremely dumb

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by [deleted] »

thot_experiment wrote: post #33

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…

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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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beyang wrote: post #29

For those looking for a free coding assistant they can also use at work / in the enterprise, Cody has had a free tier for awhile: https://sourcegraph.com/cody - Works with local models - Context-aware chat with very nice ergonomics (we see consistently more chats per day than other coding assistants) - Used by both indie devs and devs at very large enterprises like Palo Alto Networks - Hooks nicely into code search,…

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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by mehh »

acc_297 wrote: post #32

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.

I cancelled mine today, as I’ve moved to cursor, so this is a great news as I’d still want to use it sometime.

I do think this slightly aggressive tactic, I’m sure they claim otherwise!

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by TiredOfLife »

mistercheph wrote: post #66

llama3.3:70b-instruct-q4_K_M (~43 GB, 2x 3090/4090 or fast memory cpu inference on e.g. macs) or qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q5_K_M (~23 GB) or gemma2:9b-instruct-q6_K (~7.5 GB) and https://github.com/bernardo-bruning/ollama-copilot or alternatively: https://github.com/ollama/ollama + https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim

Or just get yourself a cerebras cluster and run full llama-3.1-405B.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by richardw »

I assume the recommendation-edit feedback loop is valuable and so is access to code/text that isn’t on GitHub yet? Email says “GitHub and affiliates may use your data for product improvement.” Access to all the little changes in between commits seems valuable. If you’re looking to compete on access to data I imagine this helps.

Experts weigh in pls?

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by EFreethought »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #23
fifilura wrote: post #10

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…

There are a couple of sentences in "Dune" about this:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Granted, most of us are not choosing this.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by flyingpenguin »

thot_experiment wrote: post #33

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…

I found the plugin did not prompt the model often enough. I would finish writing aline, and go to a new line and sit there waiting to see what the AI thought would be next, only to realize continue wasn't prompting...
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