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1. barney54 · 1790384411 · focus · HN ↗

   Does anyone have any good experiences with copilot? I have never heard anyone say anything good about it.

   1. preommr · 1790385225 · focus · HN ↗

      Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time. You could make a long markdown file with lots of planned edits, and just let it rip.

      It also had some really good models for basically free while it was in preview instead of being tied to a single provider.

      And finally, it's vscode integration was really good. I use codex now, and changes to a thread are in this awful diff view that shows all changes in a single tab. And even that wasn't working for a while there. No clue if cursor is better never tried it because it takes a lot for me to swtich tools because of all the small things like shorcuts and configurations that I've set over a long time.

      1. gentlewater · 1790414403 · focus · HN ↗

         It _was_ fantastic. Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing. Now, if you put the same 50 USD towards GitHub copilot compared to Codex, I’m pretty sure Codex gives you 20x the usage or something. Really sucks for us who are stuck with GitHub copilot at work for compliance reasons.

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