any good github copilot alternatives? (quex.cc)

submitted 1 year ago by fuser@quex.cc to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Copilot is great, but a hundred bucks for what is basically a smart autocomplete seems a bit much - mostly, I hate the fact that the code is constantly transmitted to github (my repos are mostly local) - are there any reasonably convenient options for doing this without github looking over my shoulder all the time? I'm using VSCode but not wedded to it.

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[-] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Fairly skeptical about Jetbrains' Model, so it's basically a wait and see.

[-] fuser@quex.cc 1 points 1 year ago

from the FAQ:

How much will AI Assistant cost in JetBrains IDEs? The AI assistant is currently free to use during the preview phase. We’ll be providing the licensing and pricing model at a later date.

It looks as though it would be similar to github - they host the model and you pay a subscription for real time access while you're coding.

Still, I'd feel ideologically more at peace paying Jetbrains for IDE-as-a-service than I do slinging github a hundred smackers just to use their model from somebody else's IDE.

A public / open source solution would be ideal.

[-] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know, just not sure the quality it offers and I am 99% sure that they train it on the piles which is a huge nearly 1 petabyte dataset that includes GitHub code. They are likely doing the same thing GitHub did when training copilot.

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