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by ashu1461 500 days ago
I wish Jet brains would give AI features for free for some time, Github co pilot will be incompatible with fleet for some time and even with other legacy jetbrain IDEs like webstorm / pycharm it does not work very well. They always release features for vs code first and then webstorm follows.
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The CPU-based one-line AI generated code is available without a subscription. I'd love for Jetbrains to make a slightly-upgraded version that runs on the GPU instead, but the single-line suggestions work fine for me.

I don't think it makes sense for something as compute intense as cloud LLM code generation to be made available for free. I do wish I'd have the ability to connect IntelliJ to a local LLM instance without having to bother with custom plugins or Ollama, though. They're supposedly working on a locally-hosted LLM integration, but that'll be locked behind a subscription as well.

CoPilot has been working fairly well for me in GoLand. I don't know if Copilot has the same or more support in Goland than in Webstorm/Pycharm, so, if the latter, my observation might well be disjoint from yours.

But so far, it's a moderately capable assistant. My biggest complaints with it have more to do with its responses than its fit with the IDE.

Copilot in VS Code has model options, the new agent is available in VSC Insiders that will implement full features and show it's changes in a diff viewer. Jetbrain IDEs don't have the option to change models
And their default model is pretty bad in JS/TS world. (but great in C#) Copilot works great for every language but the plugin integration into JetBrains IDEs is not as deep.
Have you tried co pilot with vs code ?
Jetbrains ides have free local only full line completion