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Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by adocomplete on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:46AM (#37944488)
And if you're looking for alternatives - we at Sourcegraph are building Cody - and it is open source.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/cody

Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by all2 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:28PM (#37946636)
I tried to use Cody and the UI was confusing and the completions were unbearably slow. I was using the Rider plugin.

I want Cody to work for me, but right now it doesn't. I really, really want whole project awareness (maybe even to leverage a concurrently running language server?) for my completions.

Do you guys have a usage tutorial or a video somewhere? Are you flexible with how your UI is being implemented (ie, can I pitch you ideas)?

Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by adocomplete on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:01PM (#37947131)
I'm sorry to hear that. We have made a lot of improvements to Cody recently. We had a big release on Oct 4 that significantly decreased latency while improving completion quality. You can read all about it here: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/feature-release-october-2...

We love feedback and ideas as well, and like I said are constantly iterating on the UI to improve it. I'm actually wrapping up a blog post on how to better leverage Cody w/ VS Studio, that'll be out either later today or sometime tomorrow. As far as feedback though: https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/discussions/new?category... would be the place to share ideas :)

Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by all2 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:26PM (#37948251)
I'll get it installed and try it again. I appreciate the work you guys are doing!
Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by adocomplete on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:17PM (#37950564)
Awesome! Would love to hear about your experience trying it now and seeing if we're doing any better for your use-case. :)
Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by jmherbst on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:30PM (#37946663)
Does Cody ship code/context back to sourcegraph at all? My company prohibits this
Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by adocomplete on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:06PM (#37947203)
We have agreements with the LLMs we work with to not store your prompt data or AI generated responses, or use it for training purposes. Data is only used to generate the response and then deleted.

On Sourcegraph side, we do collect some telemetry to improve our products, and for enterprise use cases we can def work with you on what data Sourcegraph collects/stores and how it interfaces. For example, we recently added support for AWS Bedrock so you can run your own instance of the LLM and connect it. So we def have options we can explore with you.

Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook by 0xkd on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:42PM (#37963632)
Tried using this; has great potential but it is too rough right now, an alpha at best - The native cody app makes me sign in everyday for some reason

- the pycharm plugin says I don’t have embeddings but the native app claims otherwise

- when indexing, it complains it cannot find the repo (i assume it is trying to fetch from remote, which is a private github, and not local disk) - i worked around this by removing the remote entirely from git but that is only a temporary solution

- i cannot choose the branch to index (i work on feature branches)