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I only use Copilot for my day job, because they paid for it. When I'm coding my personal projects on nights and weekends I find myself missing Copilot and I'm c

I only use Copilot for my day job, because they paid for it. When I'm coding my personal projects on nights and weekends I find myself missing Copilot and I'm contemplating paying for it myself. I don't really trust it for everything, but sometimes it surprises me with how much it gets right. I just can't justify paying $19/month personally for the "Business" plan so they don't use my proprietary code to train their AI.

eru 2y ago
> I just can't justify paying $19/month personally [...] Why not? Is it a significant fraction of your income? I find that the cost of hardware deprecation, electricity and internet access probably amounts to a lot more than that per month for me already. (Not to mention the opportunity cost of my time.) It's fine to be frugal, but it's also useful to compare your actual costs. (Though that's not always appreciated. I got into some minor trouble at an employer when I pointed out that the 15 GiB of storage space they 'graciously' gave us should cost them less than the company toilet paper we use every day. And I said 'should' because that's internal storage space, and I used numbers from AWS. But if they are paying significantly more for storage than what AWS charges (with enormous margins for Amazon), we also have a big problem.)
collyw 2y ago
I used ChatGPT 4 while doing some freelance projects, and considering the time it has saved me, it's easily worth the 20 bucks a month. It is by no means perfect, but I look at it more like a super powered stack overflow.
- leptons 2y ago
  About all I really use Copilot for is auto-completing console.log statements. That's most of what I like it to do. I don't need an AI to write code for me. I already know the code I'm writing better than the AI does. Sometimes the AI guesses what I'm about to write and fills it in, and sometimes I let it, but I don't trust based on my experience with it, and then I have to read a paragraphs length of code to make sure it's right before I allow it, and it's usually wrong so I've just wasted some time thanks to the AI. It gets it wrong more often than it gets anything complicated right, and often suggests buggy code. I can't really see paying for that for myself. I don't think auto-completing console.log statements is worth $20/month.

eru 2y ago

> I just can't justify paying $19/month personally [...] Why not? Is it a significant fraction of your income? I find that the cost of hardware deprecation, electricity and internet access probably amounts to a lot more than that per month for me already. (Not to mention the opportunity cost of my time.) It's fine to be frugal, but it's also useful to compare your actual costs. (Though that's not always appreciated. I got into some minor trouble at an employer when I pointed out that the 15 GiB of storage space they 'graciously' gave us should cost them less than the company toilet paper we use every day. And I said 'should' because that's internal storage space, and I used numbers from AWS. But if they are paying significantly more for storage than what AWS charges (with enormous margins for Amazon), we also have a big problem.)

collyw 2y ago

I used ChatGPT 4 while doing some freelance projects, and considering the time it has saved me, it's easily worth the 20 bucks a month. It is by no means perfect, but I look at it more like a super powered stack overflow.

leptons 2y ago
About all I really use Copilot for is auto-completing console.log statements. That's most of what I like it to do. I don't need an AI to write code for me. I already know the code I'm writing better than the AI does. Sometimes the AI guesses what I'm about to write and fills it in, and sometimes I let it, but I don't trust based on my experience with it, and then I have to read a paragraphs length of code to make sure it's right before I allow it, and it's usually wrong so I've just wasted some time thanks to the AI. It gets it wrong more often than it gets anything complicated right, and often suggests buggy code. I can't really see paying for that for myself. I don't think auto-completing console.log statements is worth $20/month.