Man, I'm getting deja vu writing this comment [0]...

...anyways, not to be confused with Codium [1], a completely FOSS, telemetry-free build of VS Code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34433412

[1] https://vscodium.com/

Edit: and not to be confused with CodiumAI [2], an AI test generator

[2] https://www.codium.ai/

Keep in mind although everything here seems to be factual (I havent tested it myself yet), this is from Codeium, a company who could be incentivized to make Copilot look worse, as that could convince other companies use Codeium instead of Copilot.

That being said, I do generally agree with what Codeium says in their blog posts, such as Be Careful Where you Send Your Code [1]. Though that post's primary purpose seems to be to advertise the on-prem solution for enterprises, it makes some valid points. Despite some minor concerns, I like Codeium as a company—as a privacy-respecting alternative to GitHub Copilot—and would like to see them suceed.

[1] https://codeium.com/blog/self-hosting-for-code-security

Github claims to have a vulnerability prevention system that blocks Copilot from generating insecure code (https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-now-has-a-bett...), but it clearly doesn't work.

How come they don’t demo their product not doing the same vulnerabilities?

Seems like an easy marketing win