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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 happyhardcore »

macspoofing wrote: post #13
rjh29 wrote: post #8

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.

>The productivity benefits are worth more than $10/month easily, but somehow I still don't want to pay for it.. Are the productivity benefits worth more than $10/month?

I've easily saved a couple of minutes each day by not having to search some API docs, since Copilot already knows how my variables should fit into the function call. Even if it's just a minute a day, 20 days a month, it works out being worth $10 easily if you're on a typical western software dev salary.

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

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Post by Operyl »

dagw wrote: post #16
Operyl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t get any useful “give me code that does X” as advertised. I found it actually worse than useless in those cases. Often I will type a function name it will populate my function body with code that at a quick glance looks like exactly what I want, but at closer inspection is actually complete nonsense. Trying understand if the code it suggests actually does what I want or not is often slower than just writing th…

Exactly how I feel, the code it produces like that (unless it’s regurgitating a pattern I am already writing which is useful) is usually wrong in some subtle way I have to figure out.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

MaxLeiter wrote: post #18
fartcannon wrote: post #4

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

It doesn’t train itself on your local code. It’s probably using your colleagues code in your codebase as part of the input to decide what you want. Someone else in a separate project will never see Copilot recommendations of your colleagues (as long as GitHub doesn’t change their ToS)

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

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Post by minimaxir »

rjh29 wrote: post #8

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.

The beta was implicitly understood to be free temporarily and they never indicated otherwise.

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

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Post by Swizec »

rjh29 wrote: post #8

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.

> maybe it's because they're using public domain code to train the model

Do you also consider it ethically questionable to look up oublic domain code on for inspiration (like on StackOverflow) while being paid $20,000/month?

Because I certainly do that plenty. I think most of us do

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

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Post by NeutronStar »

no_wizard wrote: post #6

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

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Post by fartcannon »

MaxLeiter wrote: post #18
fartcannon wrote: post #4

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

It doesn’t train itself on your local code. It’s probably using your colleagues code in your codebase as part of the input to decide what you want. Someone else in a separate project will never see Copilot recommendations of your colleagues (as long as GitHub doesn’t change their ToS)

It's on github.

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

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Post by jakear »

rjh29 wrote: post #8

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.

You don’t want to pay for it because you like free stuff. So does everyone. But that doesn’t pay the bills.

You don’t need backcraft some moral argument. It’s trivial to see that a large amount of creativity went into developing the system, it’s not just a repackaging of public domain works.

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