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I used Tabnine before GitHub Copilot and I never looked back. It feels a bit like upgrading from GPT2 to GPT3.
by speedgoose 4y ago
I used Tabnine before GitHub Copilot and I never looked back. It feels a bit like upgrading from GPT2 to GPT3.
- snorremd 4y agoI mean, that's literally what happened. At least initially Tabnine was based on the GPT2 model trained on code. Then GitHub launched Copilot using the OpenAI Codex model which is based on GPT3. I guess this is why several people have commented on the marked improvement when adopting GitHub Copilot. I have no idea how Tabnine builds their models today, and how they perform compared to Copilot. I guess one advantage could be lower latency in suggestions that they claim come from training smaller more specific models. But the way I find Copilot working for me is that it thinks about the same time I need to think and then it makes a suggestion for a good chunk of code. If my thinking and Copilot's thinking match up then I can save myself a good bit of typing.
- codemanjoe 4y agoThere's a decent comparison outlining the differences by Tabnine's CEO here (disclaimer - I work there). https://twitter.com/drorwe/status/1539293063117516801 https://twitter.com/drorwe/status/1539293063117516801