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GPT-4 powers Copilot Chat

by atgctg on 11/8/23, 5:15 PM with 19 comments

  • by brandonaaron on 11/8/23, 10:27 PM

    I recently cancelled copilot (only used the chat) in favor of aider[0] and chatgpt vscode extension[1]. I really didn’t find myself using it much and paying for usage via openai api seems a bit more reasonable for my use case.

    Side note… I also tried continue.dev vscode extension[2] but could not get it to work reliably.

    [0]: https://aider.chat/ [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=feiskyer... [2]: https://continue.dev/

  • by alach11 on 11/9/23, 1:30 AM

    > Many ideas and bugs begin in a GitHub issue. By combining the details of the issue with the knowledge of the codebase and the reasoning capabilities of GPT-4, our research team at GitHub Next has developed an AI-powered bridge to help every developer scale the barrier of putting an idea into code

    It's interesting to see how careful they are to put developers first in the way they describe use of the products. To me this is a step closer to replacing developers with PMs.

  • by JCharante on 11/9/23, 9:39 AM

    > Bringing Copilot Chat to JetBrains

    Yay. I got into the copilot x labs beta but using VS code is a nonstarter. I love my JetBrains IDEs and refuse to use anything else.

  • by joshstrange on 11/9/23, 11:19 AM

    Am I correct that only the enterprise version ($40/mo) will have the ability to use your GH repos as context for the chat? If so that kind of sucks.

    I’d almost consider paying for it for my personal repos which contains my side business but it’s a stretch.

  • by jjeaff on 11/9/23, 9:14 AM

    Does this mean that the current copilot offering is not GPT4?

    I read the announcement and really can't tell what is supposed to be different about this than the current VS Code copilot extension.

    Is it just expanded availability to other services like GitHub?

  • by iamflimflam1 on 11/8/23, 10:14 PM

    The tie up between Microsoft and OpenAI is bearing fruit.

  • by BaculumMeumEst on 11/8/23, 10:04 PM

    thank god, it was unusably bad before

  • by foobarbazooka on 11/9/23, 8:23 AM

    Does anybody know whether copilot chat will be available through the vim plugin?

  • by lysp on 11/9/23, 1:29 AM

    Great to see that they have implemented a JetBrains plugin too.