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by mpoteat 1164 days ago
Yeah, it can get somewhat expensive (e.g. $10 in a day) with very frequent use. I find it much more helpful than Github Copilot, as it performs actions 'autonomously', i.e. it can identify which files to modify to solve a task, etc.
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$10 a day is likely far too high for a hobbyist or open source developer.

However for a professional developer $10 a day for something that's much more helpful than Copilot could be just a rounding error. Especially if that "much more helpful" translates to a significant productivity boost over and above Copilot.

Big companies aren't likely to go for something like this because of IP and confidentiality concerns. But for a solo or indie developer I could possibly see it.

Does it perform a lot worse with GPT 3.5? That could drop cost hugely if it's close to as good.

Also it remains to be seen how GitHub Copilot X will perform, whenever they release it.

End of the day, it's a reall cool experiment. Thanks for sharing!