GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial

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Post by aoeuid » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
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Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial

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Post by rizowski » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

Well it was good while it lasted. $10 is too much for me.

Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial

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Post by benbristow » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

10$ a month. Meh. Got enough subscriptions nowadays, that's way too expensive IMO as someone who can only use it as a hobbyist (doesn't work on my work machine due to policies).

Poor show Microsoft - should've just been free as goodwill and to help people build software that can be deployed to Azure for the real money.

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Post by fartcannon » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

Github copilot regurgitates my colleagues highly niche code verbatim. I know its his because all the same bad variable names are used.

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Post by faraaz98 » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

rizowski wrote: post #2

Well it was good while it lasted. $10 is too much for me.

Have you tried tabnine?

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Post by no_wizard » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

I wonder if this is because enterprise / business demand would be substantially higher and they're worried about making it generally available due to load and they wouldn't be able to handle it?

Unless I misunderstand something, its not yet for businesses right?

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Post by Operyl » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

rizowski wrote: post #2

Well it was good while it lasted. $10 is too much for me.

Agreed, I feel like my limit was 5 bucks. I get good suggestions that help me prevent repetitive patterns but I don’t get any useful “give me code that does X” as advertised.

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Post by rjh29 » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

This is not good news. It's actually changed from being free to costing $10/month.

The productivity benefits are worth more than $10/month easily, but somehow I still don't want to pay for it... maybe it's because they're using public domain code to train the model.

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Post by Operyl » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

faraaz98 wrote: post #5

rizowski wrote: post #2

Well it was good while it lasted. $10 is too much for me.

Have you tried tabnine?

12/mo (annual pricing) or 15/mo at month to month is definitely more than 10/mo.

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Post by tikkun » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

My mind is blown by the people saying $10/month is too much.

$10 a month for this is an unbelievably good deal!

If you value your time, this is a ridiculously good deal.