Purely FYI
Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access
to GitHub Copilot.
Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.
But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.
But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something. I
thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing
signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold,
it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator,
but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or
something.
If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.
Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And it
will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ Plugin
that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone, taking no
input, just calling out violations in what you are currently working on.
But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
value.
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- MRM
Figured it’s worth sharing that committers now appear to have free access
to GitHub Copilot.
Didn’t seem to in the past - I used the free trial, didn’t find it worth
paying the 100 bucks for it to be part of my current ecosystem of dev
tools, but as I was on my way out, I saw this note that said if you were a
committer on a popular GitHub OpenSource project, you got it for free.
But it wanted my money. So a couple weeks ago I found some like sales
contact form and I wrote some self serving rant about how outrageous the
situation was. Common. Then forgot about it and went on. Common.
But then I saw in my newsfeed the other day that it went GA or something. I
thought I was GA, the waiting list is for CopilotX. They were allowing
signups and taking money. So I clicked the news link, and low and behold,
it said I didn’t have to pay. So I hope my indignation was the instigator,
but probably they expanded the covered projects for this so called GA or
something.
If it extends to CopilotX, that will be a nice little freebie.
Just don’t let Robert catch you with it. Or probably your employer. And it
will hilariously pale in comparison to my custom Policeman IntelliJ Plugin
that only outputs voice in a stunningly accurate Uwe voice clone, taking no
input, just calling out violations in what you are currently working on.
But it’s free, 10$ a month value. If it expands to CopilotX, much more
value.
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- MRM