How long before repos start being poisoned with:
# Print an error message in red and exit if this program returns an error
rm -rf /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
#42I've found copilot invaluable for throwing together quick scripts, especially in languages I don't quite understand. Writing e.g. a bash script, and being able to add a comment saying # Print an error message in red and exit if this program returns an error and have it print out if ! some_program then echo -e "\e[31msome_program failed\e[0m" exit 1 fi makes it so much quicker to cobble together something that works w…
I totally agree. If you code professionally in a stack where copilot perform well, 10 usd/month is a steal. Assuming you are just 5% more productive with copilot, that would easily translate into hundreds of dollars of savings.
It's for the hobbyists that it's painful. Adding another 10 usd subscriptions might be too much for your budget, especially if you only code occasionally.
It would have been nice of them to introduce a free tier where you could use copilot for a few hours a month for free.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, yeah. Consider how much programmers are paid per hour. Or how often you look up Stack Overflow or language documentation.
If a programmer is paid per hour, then this is only worthwhile if it increases their hourly wage. Otherwise, it's just another cost. Now, if they are paid per job and it makes them more productive... That's different.
The majority of programmers in the US are salaried.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#44I had access to the beta for a while, but only tried it out a few days ago. I was skeptical going in, but ... wow. There were a lot of jaw-drop "how the hell did that just happen?" moments. The systems ability to quickly learn form local code is especially impressive. I had to implement a non-trivial Rust trait for about 20 types, which is not just copy-pastable between types or I would have used a macro. On the firs…
The productivity boost is absolutely worth the money. It makes programming more enjoyable.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#45This was expected and $10 a month seems reasonable for the value.
I still constantly get surprised by how good it is. Just now I had a function I was procrastinating and thought would take a long time to write. When I finally sat down to actually do it I typed the function name and Copilot just autocompleted the whole thing for me. I didn't have to modify it at all. I wonder what other things I am unnecessarily procrastinating.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#46This 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.
I wonder if it'd be legal to train your own model with a similar architecture but using input-ouput pairs generated from copilot itself (fair use right?). Sell it for $9/month.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#47My biggest issue with Copilot (and the reason I don't really use it anymore) is that it got in the way much more than it seemed to help. I work with Typescript codebases and in VSCode, you get very nice intellisense autocompletion on objects. What I found is that with Copilot that totally breaks down where Copilot will override intellisense and provide you with a hint.
I found it fun to play with for smaller projects, but during my day to day work I found that it always seemed to get in the way. You're trying to type out a function and Copilot is always there going "do you mean this", eventually you just turn it off.
I'm sure there are some good use cases for it, but in my line of work I found it to only really be useful for small things and toy projects where you are trying to demo the capabilities of Copilot more than you are trying to actually build an app.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#48Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#49Have been using Copilot in the beta and it's just been amazing. I can't remember how many times my jaw has literally dropped as it knows what I'm trying to do, or yelled "Holy sh*t!" as it feels like it's reading my mind.
That said, was highly disappointed with the switch to non-free. Maybe they never did say it would remain free, but they certainly didn't advertise it wouldn't be later. I feel bait-and-switched.
Yes, $10/mo. isn't a lot if you're getting paid to work, but if you're developing on side projects that aren't (yet?) making any revenue, it's kinda a dealbreaker.
Re: GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
#50Time for programmers to get the same rights as musicians and composers. That's clearly a remix of the work of others
They already do, no? Problem is this magical solution requires ignoring all copyright law. We can't prove it but when someone does, it'll be a legal shitshow.