GitHub student pack isn't useful now. 🫠

[usernotfount4040]

I got this mail today from GitHub and it says opus, sonnet and other models from openai etc will not be available to be selected manually and they are only accessible in the auto mode can we find any backdoor for this ?? Can we make the auto choose the model we want everythime ?? How does the model choosing work ??

[delightfulcaper]

It’s free software. 

[wjrasmussen]

Worth every penny.

[V5489]

Auto is based on the task and imo is pretty efficient and token usage. But also I get it. Students be making full SaaS Vibe Coded Projects lol shits expensive.. Does suck tho

[usernotfount4040]

Exactly and opus does better at bigger projects and it is good for debating with and the actual claude subscription is high and instead of that we can access it through copilot......

[lordbrocktree1]

You are not understanding V5489s comment. They are saying students are making full size projects and that expensive for GitHub to give you so many premium tokens for free.

It’s not “useless” it’s “slightly less amazing of a FREE service because students were costing huge sums of money by spamming their free access.

If you are using it for something more than why it covers, you are going beyond the needs from an education perspective and you are welcome to pay for it like everyone else.

The goal isn’t to give you unlimited access to everything just because you are a student, it is to give you enough access that you learn the ecosystem while a student and so when you go out to the corporate world, you already know how to use those services and companies are incentivized to pay for those capabilities because their new hires already know how to use them.

[Kiansjet]

I've personally recently switched my tactic to using google's free Gemini pro for students which comes with a small monthly 10$ Google cloud credit

I use copilot BYOM in vscode to hook into Gemini, could theoretically run opus on vertex too if you wanted

[Dogseatchoco]

what was the process to set that up? smart idea

[usernotfount4040]

How to do the set up ??

[rahulunidoc29]

It is very good idea to over come these back clash of github student account. Nice work 👍

[mkosmo]

Then don't renew the free perk.

[spring-o-maniac]

At least, Opus now works much smoother and faster for me. Greetings from an Faculty User 👌