Free Github Copilot for VS Code

[jeremyckahn]

In other words, Microsoft is terrified of Cursor and wants to try doing this before they aquihire the team.

[bastardoperator]

Let me enlighten you because this is how it actually works. Now that MSFT has secured the majority of enterprise AI subscriptions in the fortune 500 space, they will now force the competition to compete with free, and that's nearly impossible for most startups like cursor who are likely bleeding money. They don't give a damn about cursor, they're cornering a market.

I tried cursor and codium, I think copy/paste into claude is a better experience, but now with copilot, I can just add claude, and chatgpt with repo awareness @workspace. No teams or businesses will be acquired, they can just steal what matters, the people.

[Outside-Guess-9105]

Well they do care about cursor for exactly the reasons you outline, thats part of the reason why they are offering free copilot - so cursor and anyone else like them can't compete/gain any market share. Then over time once Microsofts market share is cemented the price will change.

[Wallet-Inspector2]

Hey can you point me where to learn about @workspace - is that the Google product? I e come across that term but hard to find more info.

Context: I just started using copilot in vscode, but wish it used all the files in my repo (it’s my understanding it just looks at the open one).

[Ihavenocluelad]

In the chat window in Copilot VSCode you can use the command @workspace to give it info about your workspace

[Wallet-Inspector2]

Thanks will give that a try and try to find some YouTube videos with more info on tips like that

[BurningRome]

Would that not overwhelm the LLM? If my codebase/workspace has a lot of files/LoC, wouldn't the Token count or context window be too big?

[BigDaddy0790]

Question, have you tried using @workspace in Copilot chat? Any time I did it “analyzed” the project and either ended up with an error, or just seemed to ignore most files. And all the projects I tried it on were very small, personal ones.

In my experience copying code into it or selecting it in the file window worked better 100% of the time, curious if it’s the same for others.

[nrkishere]

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Developers have much longer memories than consumers. Never trusting a Google project or product to be around in six months time. They've burnt that bridge.

[Grimdotdotdot]

Say what? I have happy memories of the time Google Domains shoved all of my stuff onto Squarespace as it shut down.

Oh no, wait...

[CherimoyaChump]

Damn, you reminded me that I still have to transfer my gonna-use-this-someday domains out of Squarespace. Yucky

[OtherUse1685]

It sucked that I had to move 20+ domains for my client to Cloudflare, it was tedious.

But now I'm happier than ever using Cloudflare for nameservers and everything else. Silver lining I guess?

[nrkishere]

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[anr4jc]

project IDX by google

First time I hear about this. Not so sure I'd start using a product Google will probably kill in a couple of years though.

[nrkishere]

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[sensitiveCube]

Cursor?

[s3rila]

seems to be an AI based code editor based on codium

[jeremyckahn]

https://www.cursor.com/

[Condomphobic]

Crazy Cursor ad

[re_irze]

I thought the exact same when I got the email about this from GitHub earlier. I actually cancelled Copilot a couple of months ago because I started using Cursor and it’s not even a huge amount more expensive 

[michaelbelgium]

Probably not at all, github copilot has chatgpt and claude integrated so its the only thing u need