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Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?

 1 year ago
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Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?

Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?
13 points by gremlinsinc 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments
I find myself, especially when I'm jumping between languages that I'm less familiar with, more reliant on copilot for boilerplate, or at least example code that I can modify. It really does come in handy and save time, but I'm not certain it's worth $10 per month, or I'm just a cheapskate, and would rather find a better deal if there is one.

I've tried Tabnine, but it's never been that great and it's a memory/cpu hog.

Just got a notice that copilot's 'preview' is ending in 3 days, so it's time to find a replacement or decide if it's worth it to keep it and pay the fee.

If you have time in your hand, try following this and see if it suits your needs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyGlSKsYeo

I honestly think that $10/month is more than worth it. I found that having copilot is cheaper than hiring a junior dev. I mostly use it for C++, python, and TypeScript and has been really satisfied with it.

Hello All, I am trying to build a libre and gratis A.I power code completion assistant https://gnughost.gitlab.io/

Not sure if I will succeed or if it would become serious, but let's see.

It's built on OpenAI Codex, which is free now, and likely to be charged on usage in the future (cheaper). It's not baked into the IDE like Copilot, but so far it's worked better than Stack Overflow at writing code.
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For further context, OpenAI built GitHub Copilot in partnership with GitHub
Personally I can't see the point of paying for Copilot, I'd rather spend the money on resources to expand my knowledge of the areas I'm working in - if you like I'm training my own neural net to help with coding :)
There's 3/4 and no real open source community efforts yet:

- GitHub Copilot (owned by Microsoft)

- Amazon CodeWhisperer (still in development)

- TabNine (just not there yet)

- Kite (no longer maintained)

I was going to suggest trying Kite, but it seems to be unavailable at the moment. I've never used it myself but it's the only other one I know of.
What is your hourly rate and how much do you pay for a coffee? Is 10 a month really a significant factor here?
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For some open source developers, students, or hobbiests who don't have a job, yes.

Also I think the main point is just the fact that such a useful tool is so monopolized currently. Would be nice to know that if Microsoft randomly decided to triple the price or do something shady with it, there would be fallback options. Preferably something open sourced and community oriented

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Students get 1 year of copilot for free. But it’s like heroin: once you got hooked on it, you cannot live without it.
Can any of these be trained on your own codebase?
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