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Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#11
This seems really cool, thanks for sharing!

The thing I find the most valuable about Copilot is it living directly in VSCode. Understand it's not trivial and this has one public commit, but long-term do you have plans to move closer to the editor?

How do you see this in relation to other projects like continue.dev?

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#12
post #3

I root for this, but runnign LLM locally disqualifies a lot of workstations, for example laptops with integrated graphics.

You can run it on a different machine. I've set up my desktop to host ollama, and use it from my laptop just fine.

Do you use continue.dev or privy with that setup?

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#13
post #6

maybe I'm showing my rural roots here, but a privy is an outhouse. Of course, it also has the "secret" meaning, but...

I suspect it's making use of the 'trusted personal advisor' connotations, similar to the metaphor of having a co-pilot if you will - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#16

Nice. > Some of the popular LLMs that we recommend are: Mistral, CodeLLama 1. Surprised Mistral ( Mixtral ?) is recommended for code generation / explanation alongside a fine-tuned CodeLlama ? 2. Recent human evals put Microsoft's WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B (SoTA w/ GPT4) at the top of the rankings with WizardCoder-33B , Magiccoder-S-DS-6.7B trailing: https://twitter.com/TeamCodeLLM_AI/status/174755128687745064...

Typically when a 6.7B model or similar beats a 33B model it's not really true in my experience. At the least I have very a high burden of proof before believing it.

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#17

Nice. > Some of the popular LLMs that we recommend are: Mistral, CodeLLama 1. Surprised Mistral ( Mixtral ?) is recommended for code generation / explanation alongside a fine-tuned CodeLlama ? 2. Recent human evals put Microsoft's WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B (SoTA w/ GPT4) at the top of the rankings with WizardCoder-33B , Magiccoder-S-DS-6.7B trailing: https://twitter.com/TeamCodeLLM_AI/status/174755128687745064...

Are you able explain what the charts mean? Only one of the three has wavecoder at the top.

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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> I am fairly confused by the amount of work people are willing to devote to runner-up work You're not entirely wrong, even if off-topic. See also: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

Wow, that was an awesome post; funny and insightful. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#20
So, you essentially took my project ( https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode ), and instead of contributing to it or forking it, you recommitted all the code under your own name, with a few small tweaks.

To be fair, I saw that you give credit, but it's kind of disappointing still given that prob 98% of the project is the work of the Rubberduck contributors. I know Rubberduck is not that active any more, but it's still disappointing.

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