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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by notsylver on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:26AM (#42461183)
I've had the opposite experience - I tried continue.dev and for me it doesn't come close to copilot. Especially with copilot chat having o1-preview and Sonnet 3.5 for so cheap that I single handedly might bankrupt microsoft (we can hope), but I tried it before that was availlable and the inline completions were laughably bad in comparison.

I used the recommended models and couldn't figure it out, I assume I did something wrong but I followed the docs and triple checked everything. It'd be nice to use the GPU I have locally for faster completions/privacy, I just haven't found a way to do that.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by fortyseven on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:04AM (#42461466)
The last couple times I tried "continue" it felt like "Step 1" in someone's business plan; bulky and seconds away from converting into a paid subscription model.

Additionally, I've tried a bunch of these (even the same models, etc) and they've all sucked compared to Copilot. And believe me, I want that local-hosted sweetness. Not sure what I'm doing wrong when others are so excited by it.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by archon810 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:09PM (#42463490)
I just tried Continue and it was death by 1000 paper cuts. And by that I mean 1000 accept/reject blocks.

And at some point I asked to change a pretty large file in some way. It started processing, very very slowly and I couldn't figure out a way to stop it. Had to restart VS Code as it still kept changing the file 10 minutes later.

Copilot was also very slow when I tried it yesterday but at least there was a clear way to stop it.

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