I switched to Codeium free tier three months ago and never looked back to Copilot since then. Copilot is a mess on Julia and Elixir/Erlang code.
GitHub Copilot is now available for free
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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#162I 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’m also a JetBrains person and never really “got” VSCode. So cursor was not a fit for me, the VSC kn shortcuts always felt limiting. So I use zed since it can be configured to use JB kb shortcuts. And it’s open source and super fast (rust-based)
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#163They appear to be SO excited about their new feature that they sent an email about it to every single email address associated with my Github accounts. Which is quite a few addresses that have been used for git commits over the years.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 A…
I will also stick with JetBrains and am impressed by aider! I'm using this plugin to integrate aider into IntelliJ: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25249-coding-aider
Still in progress but already pretty useful
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#165I 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 went from VSCode to Cursor 3 months ago. Might come back to VSCode for this, but so far, Cursor feels snappier than copilot.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#166The real cost is that society at large is no longer contributing to the StackOverflow, so problems and solutions are all now stored in proprietary databases (which granted SO also was) but also now stored in an invisible proprietary database
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Okay, this 100% echoes my (limited) experience, and I'm glad I'm not imagining things.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#168The real cost is that society at large is no longer contributing to the StackOverflow, so problems and solutions are all now stored in proprietary databases (which granted SO also was) but also now stored in an invisible proprietary database
The StackOverflow database was open source for a while, but I haven't checked for a data dump since the new management came in.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#169The real cost is that society at large is no longer contributing to the StackOverflow, so problems and solutions are all now stored in proprietary databases (which granted SO also was) but also now stored in an invisible proprietary database
I think you'd find society-at-small was contributing, with perhaps 10x larger yet still quite small number posting but watering down useful contributions, 100x that lurking, and 1000x that just drive-by copy-pasting from SO to their IDE.
Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free
#170They appear to be SO excited about their new feature that they sent an email about it to every single email address associated with my Github accounts. Which is quite a few addresses that have been used for git commits over the years.
Does that include the email addresses configured in your ~/.gitconfig?
If so, I apologise to fart@butts.com.