[yohannparis]

To be honest, you’d better buy GitHub co-pilot and enjoy the productivity boost at a cheap price. Trying to download/install/setup/use StableCode is worth it only if you want to learn all those steps as well. If what you care is the final result, just buy an existing service.

[hmottestad]

I have bought into co-pilot, but I can’t say it’s that much of a productivity boost. More often than not it recommends something completely wrong. I guess it might be more useful if I did more spring boot or maybe hibernate.

I’ve found chat gpt to be more helpful in general. I can paste some code in and have a discussion about what I want it to fix for me.

[arcanemachiner]

I may put all my open source stuff on GitHub, but hell will freeze over before I willingly let Microsoft get a whiff of my private data, no matter how irrelevant it may be.

GitHub Copilot sounds pretty neat though, I will admit that.

[fruit2020]

I didn’t have a good experience with copilot. It was ok for some auto completions, but I found it very distracting to correct it many times when it didn’t do well. It’s like it interrupted my flow. Maybe there is a shortcut to enable it on demand rather than always on, but it wasn’t obvious in the Jetbrains plugin

[selfhoster11]

Yeah, why not upload all my employer's proprietary code to Microsoft? What could possibly go wrong?

I get that consuming an API is far easier than setting up your own inference backend, but there are legitimate issues to consider before going in that direction.