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My trial ran out yesterday and I cancelled the subscription. It feels limiting on its own. There are three use cases off the top of my head - auto complete. T

by aloer 4y ago

My trial ran out yesterday and I cancelled the subscription. It feels limiting on its own. There are three use cases off the top of my head - auto complete. This one is amazing but I’m not willing to spend 10/month for only that - generate code inline. The main purpose of copilot. It works okay but too often I feel like I’m faster if I google things myself. Perhaps I’m just a very fast googler and reader. Wouldn’t surprise me - use a solution and adapt it to my own code. I don’t know how this could work without copilot having access to my browser and knowing what I just read somewhere. I’m very excited about this but right now copilot does not seem the right tool But above all I cancelled for two reasons: it’s too slow and I can’t trust my privacy and code IP to be respected Edit: I also feel there is a lot of secondary information lost. If I google I have multiple tabs and windows and (temporal) structure. I also learn about neighboring concepts via stackoverflow comments, or I learn about how to navigate the docs for whatever I’m doing right now. With copilot I am not exposed to all of this. Not yet

ChatGTP 4y ago
Edit: I also feel there is a lot of secondary information lost. If I google I have multiple tabs and windows and (temporal) structure. I also learn about neighboring concepts via stackoverflow comments, or I learn about how to navigate the docs for whatever I’m doing right now. This! I think what we lose from these auto-completion systems is a differing of opinions, options and abilities to learn and evolve our ideas. I don't always want the most commonly weighted average answer. I want to see, learn and try new things. But above all I cancelled for two reasons: it’s too slow and I can’t trust my privacy and code IP to be respected I'm starting to look for GitHub alternatives for this reason, I'm sure it's no surprise where they're getting all the great training data from, it's our code. Which might be ok, but no you won't even be able to innovate to make some money because co-pilot will be reading all your suggestions. I wonder if Microsoft trains it on their own proprietary code? :)

by aloer 4y ago

ChatGTP 4y ago

Edit: I also feel there is a lot of secondary information lost. If I google I have multiple tabs and windows and (temporal) structure. I also learn about neighboring concepts via stackoverflow comments, or I learn about how to navigate the docs for whatever I’m doing right now. This! I think what we lose from these auto-completion systems is a differing of opinions, options and abilities to learn and evolve our ideas. I don't always want the most commonly weighted average answer. I want to see, learn and try new things. But above all I cancelled for two reasons: it’s too slow and I can’t trust my privacy and code IP to be respected I'm starting to look for GitHub alternatives for this reason, I'm sure it's no surprise where they're getting all the great training data from, it's our code. Which might be ok, but no you won't even be able to innovate to make some money because co-pilot will be reading all your suggestions. I wonder if Microsoft trains it on their own proprietary code? :)