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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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For Jetbrains users: consider voting for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-2402

Seems like they're adding Claude in January? https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai/serv...

Cool! Seems like they could have commented on that ticket. :)

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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)

I have the same issue, I tried to get into VSCode a few times but each time switched back to JetBrains.

If your main issue is the keybinding though there is a vscode plugin[1] that recreates Intellij IDEA bindings, which I found helped smooth the transition during my tryouts for me.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=k--kato....

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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.

Congratulations, you are one of today's 10000* to learn about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware and free trials.

*https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Jetbrains is still the leader in all of the small details that make navigating and working a code base easy. Copy and paste workflow is a minor slowdown, but nothing compared to things like smart links in terminal, auto detection of run configurations, etc, etc.

This. 1000x This. I watch people navigate code in VSCode and I want to pull my hair out. Things that I don’t even think about are hard and/or require just falling back to search. And before “there is a plugin for that”, I’m sure there is. I’m sure you can configure VSCode to be just as powerful as IDEA but the rank and file using it aren’t doing that work to install and configure a bunch of plugins. So, on average, V…

For literally multiple years I tried to convince a colleague of mine to try Rider. They're a diehard CLI and VS Code user. I made a video showing my workflow and how quickly I can navigate around and do refactors. Next day they were saying they couldn't believe it took them this long to use something better.

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They 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.

Only if you have manually associated them with your Github account so that they show up as "your" commits, as far as I'm aware (although I'm not sure how deep Github's integration with desktop tools reaches these days)

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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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.

GPS navigation, at least on Google Maps, is there free to get you to click on paid ad places.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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I can't wait for IntelliJ to get where Cursor appears to be. Being able to combine a great IDE with project-level AI coding will be a huge leap forward.

I'm going to feel personally offended if Jetbrains drops the ball on this. Seriously, this here right now is the precise moment in time where people will either look back at wondering how such a clear leader managed to sink into insignificance, or not. I love IntelliJ more than my own kids, but if they don't add "the AI does not just talk about what code to create, it actually creates it, across multiple files and fo…

Very impressive. Was it a React application?
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