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Codeium offers best in class AI code completion, search, and chat — all for free. It supports over 70+ languages and integrates with your favorite IDEs, with lightning fast speeds and state-of-the-art suggestion quality.
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    4 months ago

    These things cost money to run, so how are they offering it for free? Who’s paying for it? How do they profit from our using it? What’s the catch?

    Edit: Someone else here found that the license basically means all the code you write with it becomes theirs. Seems like we found the catch.

    • trigonated@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      Edit: Someone else here found that the license basically means all the code you write with it becomes theirs. Seems like we found the catch.

      Bahaha if this is true, then this tool is basically pathetic as it’s almost completely useless.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’m using GitHub Copilot and haven’t dug into the license. It’s possible I’m technically handing all my code over to Microsoft.

  • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    I switched from Copilot to Codeium after only a couple of months of Copilot use - just based on the cost since currently I’m just a hobby coder.

    The main difference I’ve noticed is that Codeium doesn’t seem as smart about the local context as Copilot. Copilot would look at how I’m handling promises in a project, and stick to that, whereas Codeium would choose a strategy seemingly at random.

    A second, and maybe more telling example, is that I do my accounts using ‘plain text accounting’ in VS Code. This is a very niche approach to accounting software and I imagine is hardly in the training sets at all - there certainly would not be a lot of public domain text accounts in the particular format (BeanCount) I use in public code repositories. Codeium doesn’t make any suggestions for entries as I’m entering transactions, whereas Copilot would see that the account names I’m using are present in another file in the project and suggest them, and very quickly figure out the formatting of transactions and suggest them correctly.

  • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
    41·
    4 months ago

    Sounds interesting, I’ve never used copilot and I’m not a programmer by profession (I just write a few scripts here and there for data analysis or experiment control), but I’m interested in checking this out. Has anyone here tried it? I’m worried it’ll get in my way more often than it helps.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
      62·
      4 months ago

      I’ve found Codeium pretty handy, especially for boilerplate-y stuff like unit tests, and it can very often “guess” what I’m going after especially if I eg have a TODO comment or something similar where I start completion. Doesn’t always work but doesn’t get in my way either, so overall it’s been a benefit

      edit: note that the language you write will likely be a factor. When I tried Codeium with Julia, the results were often pretty meh likely because it’s a more niche language, but with eg Swift it’s been fine

    • VinS@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      4 months ago

      I have been able GPT4 to do some basic scripting, but gpt3.5 did not succeeded anything for me. The first plan with gpt4 is 12bucks a month.

      If you only code not often, continue.dev is good alternative plugged to a provider like together (using Llama 3 70b a few times and cost me 0.01$). They also announced a partnership with mistral but didn’t tried it.

      • nave@lemmy.ca
        21·
        4 months ago

        The first plan with gpt4 is 12bucks a month.

        Gpt-4o (the newest model) is free for a limited number of messages.

          • nave@lemmy.ca
            31·
            4 months ago

            I messed around with it a little bit. I never used gpt-4 so I can’t say how much better it is, but it worked really well and only required some minor tweaking on my part.

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Someone suggested I try Supermaven yesterday, it’s got some good benefits over competitors. It has a 300,000 token context length so it can send a very large amount of context for your completions, and it has an extremely fast API response time (usually less than 200ms) so completions appear near-instantly as you’re typing.

    It’s the first “copilot-like” tool I’ve used, and I’ve only been using it for a day, but so far I’m liking it. And I’ve already signed up for the $10/month pro plan.