They're gonna have to pay me to waste my time with this trash
Does the EFF call it Free?
It's free as in beer.
Free as in herpes.
This needs to get added to the common nomenclature as the third option 😂
Beer is expensive, and gives you colon cancer.
That's why I take heroin
I'm not the one who's so far away
When I feel the snake bite enter my veins
No such thing as a free beer, no more than there's a free lunch.
no more than there's a free lunch.
Well, there's free Copilot now.
uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:
github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###copilot-button-container
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
github.blog##article.changelog-label-models
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(LLM)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(OpenAI)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(ChatGPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(GPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Llama)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Gemini)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Grok)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(DeepSeek)
Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot
Time to start using VSCodium then, I want no cloud AI in my development setup.
Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,
no complaints about it, imo it's what VSCode should be.
i like vscodium but is sublime text still worth it. i use it for some things but the packages are harder to find/manage, i feel.
better use Zed, it is hot cake
just waiting on the windows version :(
i hope it never comes, use gnu/linux
as soon as i can afford a new laptop but until then i have what i have
But it has ai chats baked in as well, or is there a way to disable it? Haven’t looked properly yet.
there are ways to disable that, check r/zed
My question is, why give it for free? Has their product developed enough to win in the AI developer space? Are we reaching the point where you could self-host an AI code assistant as good as copilot? Or are projects such as johnny.ai (renamed, I'm not going to advertise it) challenging Microsoft's market share in the AI developer space?
My only guess is Microsoft wants you to get used to their ecosystem and further ingrain developers into their development ecosystem. At best, once you are used to their ecosystem you'll stick with them out of familiarity. At worst, they can use your input (prompts, refactors, etc) to further the development of copilot.
To me this smells of typical subsidizing of a product to capture market share then lock in that market share. Anything I'm missing?
Edit: johnny.ai seems to be a domain offered for resale by godaddy. I didn't mean to link them but I'll leave it here, don't give godaddy money as they are a terrible domain name registrar.
To me this smells of typical subsidizing of a product to capture market share then lock in that market share. Anything I'm missing?
That's exactly it.
From their email:
What you get:
2,000 code suggestions a month: Get context-aware suggestions tailored to your VS Code workspace and GitHub projects.
50 Copilot Chat messages a month: Use Copilot Chat in VS Code and on GitHub to ask questions and refactor, debug, document, and explain code.
Choose your AI model: You can select between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT 4o.
Render edits across multiple files: Use Copilot Edits to make changes to multiple files you’re working with.
Access the Copilot Extensions ecosystem: Use third-party agents to conduct web searches via Perplexity, access information from Stack Overflow, and more.
So it's just a rate limited thing meant to get you signed up and then cut you off right when you get used to it. I get access through work and well, it just sucks.
And you can't opt out..
If you have a GitHub account you are auto added in.
What do you mean? You have to create an account and log in. Am I missing something?
If you have a github account, you have this. You can decide to not use it… unless it gets intertwined more and more in your tools and you have to actively make sure your IDE is not suddenly sending your whole private project to MS servers because it was enabled by default.
So you can opt out
Please point me to anything, anywhere in your github profile, settings, or whatever, that allows you to make sure that this feature will not be enabled for you.
I'll wait.
You're the one making the false claim it cannot me opted out right now. If you want you prove that claim go ahead.
As you want you also prove the future, please prove it won't be possible to opt out in the future.
I know you will come empty handed, so won't bother waiting
I have a hard time parsing your sentences, but it seems you don't understand. You can't opt out of those "free" credits. It's a simple matter of not having the option given to us.
You have to manually enable copilot free even if you install copilot extension and you log in. How do I know? I tried instead of making things up in my head like you are.
You don't have hard time parsing my sentences. You have hard time admitting you have no idea what you're saying.
It's a free sample, which is a very common marketing technique. The free tier only gives you 2000 code completions a month so if you end up using it a lot you'll need to switch to a paid tier. Nothing particularly nefarious there.
Better tl:dr;
GitHub announced a free version of its Copilot code completion tool, previously only available to students and open-source maintainers. The free plan, limited to 2,000 code completions per month, aims to expand Copilot’s reach and enable more developers worldwide. GitHub also announced reaching 150 million developers on its platform.
I don't need help to do copyright infringement Microsoft.
The fact that it even exists still shows how bad the state of programming is nowadays.
There's absolutely no way this is sustainable
It's limited. They give you a free dose at first and expect you to come back for more later.
Why is it never drugs??
It's basically digital drugs.
I mean chatgpt isn't sustainable right now, and is losing money.
Large corpos/VC funded startups will happily burn money to capture a critical mass of users. They're frontloading cost to capture market share. Similar to Alexa's, they're dirt cheap to get you into their ecosystem. Rappi has done this in Latin America, uber did it for a time, etc.
Oh good, FREE SLOP FOR ALL!
'free'
So is that 'sell my data' free? Or 'get you hooked on the product and then add a subscription a year later' free?
Bastards.
Both. And there is no guarantee they are not selling your data even if you pay.
Enterprise versions of Copilot do guarantee in the contract that they are not selling your data or using it to train their LLM.
If would be amazing to stop using the word free when we are talking about companies like Microsoft and Google
honestly copilot is great just to autocomplete repetitive lines of code but not enough to pay. i find the emmet snippets much better.
I've had much joy from using 'windsurf', the VSCode clone with the stupidest name.
Same here. I'm a Cursor subscriber but I loked Windsurf better after using its free trial.
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