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GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by bugglebeetle »

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…

You can set up Cursor with a local LLM, connected via an open source ngrok substitute (can’t remember which ones are good). Only recommend doing this on a Mac with a lot of ram so you can use one of the actually useful coding models though (e.g. QwenCoder2.5-32b).

Re: GitHub Copilot is now available for free

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Post by throw234234234 »

forty wrote: post #101
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…

Wait a bit, it won't last

In what way - that those things/people doing that will fail? Or the tooling will get better that this is no longer a problem? Completely different outcomes with very different consequences.

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Post by singularity2001 »

eastbound wrote: post #147
singularity2001 wrote: post #109

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Tried to move from JetBrains to VS Code with new Copilot Edit mode. Moved back to JetBrains and horribly outdated copy paste workflow ... for now. Disruption is imminent though. (And yes JetBrains AI integration got better but the 'insert code at cursor option' is laughable. There is a command to generate code right in the editor too, but not from chat. Also $10 extra. ) PS: One UI feature that I haven't seen anywher…

Jetbrains is getting laughingly bad at normal autocompletion. Autocompletiok is losing features every day, it seems. Yes, Jetbrains might either be removing features to move them to AI, or breaking features involuntarily in order to move faster to implement AI. Either way, AI is killing Jetbrains.

Oh that's why; I thought my copilot got worse. I think it got replaced by the worse Jetbrains AI. Can I selectively deactivate it?

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Post by BeefWellington »

gdhkgdhkvff wrote: post #160
sleepybrett wrote: post #73

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... 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…

Please reconcile that idea with o365.

There are areas where Microsoft knows (or at least behaves as though) they have an effective unchallenged monopoly, and off boarding is too costly an endeavour.

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Post by timrichard »

efsavage wrote: post #129
JadoJodo wrote: post #35

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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 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.

That would be fantastic...

I keep them both open on the same project, as there are some things IntelliJ does superbly.

I evaluated Jetbrains AI and Copilot with VSCode, but they just didn't impress me. I tried Cursor, and subscribed a couple of days into the trial. The workflow is just right.

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