HACKER Q&A
📣 keyle

Are you going to start paying for copilot?


It's an incredible tool and it has saved me so much time already.

I have a couple of gripes with it though... first, it's too aggressive... Press enter, doing so reformatting, it takes over the screen with suggestions sometimes 5-10 lines long.

So I find myself turning it off because I can't have it on a shortcut nor define how long the timeout should be before suggesting (hint hint feature requests)... That means I'd use it about 10% of the month, as is.

It is however the best one so far, by a mile. The other ones I tried where joke worthy in comparison.

Are you going to start paying when the trial period ends?


  👤 ksaj Accepted Answer ✓
Going from Lisp to Python, the one place I see it might be amazing is in the REPL. But it is way too much in your face as it currently is, and needs a lot of work. Maybe it's suggestions should be off to the side or something. Somehow it has to be made less annoying.

It drives me nuts in the editor because it helps just a little, but then needs just as keen an eye to spot it's wonkiness as you normally need to see your own coding wonkiness. I tried it a few times but I just keep abandoning it until I remember next time.

Then, it is way too easy to get stuck in these annoying loops where it keeps telling you the same suggestions repeatedly. It'll happily suggest the same 3 lines 20 times in succession, and treat that as normal code. I don't know what triggers it, but I have managed to see it far too often in this intro period.

I think the concept on the right track, destined to be brilliant. But is too much like a hired hand that sometimes says smart things, and otherwise constantly needs attention and correction. It can be really jolting to the flow.

I'm currently not a fan. I'm probably outnumbered by fans, though. I haven't used it for weeks as it is, so I doubt I'm going to pay for it's current incarnation.


👤 h44xxx
If you're not going to pay for it and you're on the preview, the first wave of charges are about to go out. So make sure you do want to pay or cancel: https://github.com/settings/billing

👤 muzani
Last week, OpenAI Codex did half the work for a JS contract. It acts like a Stack Overflow, that gives me actual code when asked. Copilot is built on top of Codex, just trained better and integrated into an IDE.

It's free for now, likely to be cheaper than Copilot when it's not free.

I've wanted to write a guide on it, but can't scrape the time to. I might actually use Codex to help me figure out how to use Hugo so I can set up a blog.


👤 thiago_fm
My company pays for it and I see rarely anything interesting. I'd say it is just entertaining to see it working.

👤 speedgoose
Yes, it saves enough time that it’s very very much worth its price.