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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by thot_experiment »

k__ wrote: post #140
thot_experiment wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% disagree with this take, the flexibility in controlling the prompt leads to QwenCoder2.5-32b outperforming gpt-o1 and claude sonnet 3.5 for nearly everything that I use it for (true for Gemma-27b and llama3.3-70b, though in this context I'm almost always using the former). A specialist model that's specifically prompted to do the correct thing will outperform a SOTA generic model with a one size fits all system…

Sounds great. Does this run with VSCode and how hard is it to set this up?

yes, the vscode extension is a one click install, so is ollama which is a separate project that provides local inference

you'll then have to download a model, which ollama makes very easy. choosing which one will depend on your hardware but the biggest QwenCoder2.5 you can fit is a very solid starting place. it's not ready for your grandma, but it's easy enough that I'd trust a junior dev to be able to get it done

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by hkaal »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #64

Working with people who use this stuff a lot has made my current job just so so much harder in every way its astonishing. I used to solve problems with code, now I feel like hermeneut or dream analyzer: absent of human intention, codebases quickly become these weird piles of different idioms, even without considering the hallucinations (those have definitely cost me a few sleepless nights now either way). But I am ju…

It is part of the great plan:

- Buy GitHub and devalue all individual projects by soft-forcing most big projects to go there and lose their branding.

- Gamify and make "development" addictive.

- Use social cliques who hype up each other's useless code and PRs and ban critics.

- Make kLOC and plagiarism great again!

This all happened before "AI". "AI" is the last logical step that will finally destroy open source, as planned by Microsoft.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by insane_dreamer »

asdev wrote: post #5

I 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

Sticking with Jetbrains (Pycharm) which has good CoPilot integration (has an extension for Claude as well but I haven't gotten it working). Tried Cursor but I didn't find it compelling enough to switch.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by beyang »

JadoJodo wrote: post #35
asdev wrote: post #5

I 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.

Check out Cody for GoLand and JetBrains: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9682-cody-ai-coding-ass...

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by thot_experiment »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #74
forty wrote: post #62

Is there any solution that is 1- fully local 2- open source 3- fast on CPU only 4- provide reasonable good results for smart auto complete ? I don't want my work to depend on proprietary or even worse, online, software. We (software engineer) got lucky that all the good tools are free software and I feel we have a collective interest in making sure it stays that way (unless we want to be like farmers having to pay Mo…

> 3- fast on CPU only Unless you've got a CPU with AI-specific accelerators and unified memory, I doubt you're going to find that. I can't imagine any model under 7B parameters is useful, and even with dual-channel DDR5-6400 RAM (Which I think is 102 GB/s?) and 8-bit quantization, you could only generate 15 tokens/sec, and that's assuming your CPU can actually process that fast. Your memory bandwidth could easily be…

deepseek-1b, qwen2.5-coder:1.5b, and starcoder2-3b are all pretty fast on cpu due to their small size, you're not going to be able to have conversations with them or ask them to perform transformations on your code but autocomplete should work well

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by mistrial9 »

Gigachad wrote: post #139
sleepybrett wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... and they aren't concerned with what microsoft is doing with it?

Microsoft already has access to all of your code on Github.

and your partner network, and your commit patterns, and your bug list, and your remote IP address while working, and you have to authenticate to them each time you use it (which means that they can turn off your access)

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by limerickwin »

hm.. it seems like I won't use this service for a while as I got the following error message while starting IntelliJ today: You've reached your monthly code completion limit. Upgrade your plan to Copilot Pro (30-day Free Trial) or wait until -4712-01-01 for your limit to reset to continue coding with GitHub Copilot.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by heywire »

barrell wrote: post #134
snide wrote: post #17

Anyone using the Neovim plugin and suddenly starting to get rate limit errors? I'm already on pro, but it's asking me to upgrade to pro in Neovim?

This happened to me as well. Came back from several weeks off and I kept getting these rate limit windows in vim today. I was/om on the OSS pro plan so I just figured the gravy train ended and unsintalled it

I saw a post on Reddit that said this was a bug and they’re working on it.

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by gdhkgdhkvff »

sleepybrett wrote: post #73
Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately for me in enterprise it was impossible to convince them to allow us to use cursor since they're not well known like GitHub/Microsoft so they're afraid of what they'd do with our data. We are allowed Copilot and Chatgpt because of an enterprise contract with each. Luckily copilot has been improving but there definitely was a while where it felt way behind the jumps other products have had in the past yea…

... and they aren't concerned with what microsoft is doing with it?

This is such a common lazy cynical take on HN. “Microsoft is evil, therefore they will destroy their enterprise customer relationships by stealing their enterprise customer data, despite the fact that they explicitly state they will not do that.”

I would understand this mindset when it comes to consumer uses of it, but enterprise is where Microsoft makes its money and it would have to be the dumbest business decision ever to ruin the enterprise cash cow by doing that.

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