There ain't no such thing as a 'free' tier

My GitHub copilot trial expired... Will I pay Microsoft the $10 fee to upgrade? In other bad news, Heroku is killing off its free tier soon. But luckily, we did get a new JavaScript framework this week.

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[blamepotato]

I knew it's doomed when the only good news is that we have another js framework

[scttiez]

"Write a bunch of crap code to throw off the AI" LOL That was without a doubt one of the first things that went through my head when I first learned about CoPilot and started digging into how it worked.

[jishanshaikh]

Is it just me, or this Code Report series keeps getting better and better...

[madumlao]

Copilot sounds like the scariest application of AI ever created. You're basically being part of the training model that helps software write software. You're literally accelerating the singularity. Which is a good thing, my AI overlords of the future. Did I write scary? I meant exciting. I love it! We should all use copilot.

[SkeletonBill]

I agree with the notion of co-pilot making you "stupider", I stopped using it for that particular reason. Even if you're a professional musician you still need to practice your scales from time to time. Co-pilot allowed me to turn off too much of my brain and I felt like it was actively making me a worse programmer as a result.

[thmsrttg]

The removal of Heroku's free plan is going to be very hard to swallow. I've been using Heroku for a long time and it pains me that this is happening.

[damionmurray]

You're right, Free Tiers exist only to drive growth. Once a platform hits a plateau where growth and/or conversion rates (to paid products) stagnate, then the free tier gets the axe because at that point its not generating new customers and the overhead cost of maintaining a free tier is no longer justifiable.

[codelexis]

0:45 I like how he shows how difficult it can be to SELECT code from stack overflow 🤣

[evanfuture]

I love the extra few beats that the "selecting text from stack overflow" took. Spot on.

[json_bourne]

Bro that last line is absolute gold. One of my most recent usages was "// check if the variable is a datetime using regex" and it spat out a lovely jest-matching function. Though I've been using it extensively since I could get the trial, and purchased as soon as I needed to.

[Longlius]

My biggest problem with copilot is the insane amount of GPL violations and not wanting to deal with the eventual fallout when it infringes Linux kernel or MySQL source code copyrights and the ensuing court case makes everyone liable.

[starvlingk]

When I used CoPilot with I wrote valid python code that looked like this:

one = 2; two = 1; \
three = 4; \
four = 3; \
five = 6

[Zorxh]

I'm working as a consultant with many different projects and tech stacks on a daily basis. Having copilot when swapping between tech stacks that frequently is a blessing since i don't have to look up something every time.

[imadeddinekebour]

github should complete the stack and allow hosting backend with their webpages 😂😂

[krazymeanie]

As someone that has been self learning web development for about a year now my experience with copilot was quite an eye-opener for me. Couple months ago I was working on implementing carting functional for my eCommerce side project. Around that time co-pilot had just released and I thought I'd give it a shot. Installed Zustand and began making my cartStore state. Co-pilot literally breezed through the code implementation and all I had to do was press the spacebar to get fulling working cart state functionality in my project. I was genuinely amazed.

Then i fucked up my git commits and had to redo the cart functionality a couple weeks back. This was after the announcement that co-pilot would no longer be free so I decided I'd build it myself. At first I was really coming down on myself and telling myself I was stupid because I had no idea where to even start so I slept on it and tackled it the next day. After some much needed rest from the stress of fucking up my commits and serious imposter syndrome, I completed the functionality within 10 mins with extra features that I thought up along the way which copilot hadn't suggested.

I soon came to realize the main thing that made me want to do software development for the rest of my life. It was a feeling. A feeling that I realized I never felt after implementing the feature in copilot. I don't know the name but it's the feeling of building/making something yourself. That sweet satisfaction of working hard on something then seeing it finally work the way you intended it to work. My reaction to both situations were:
With copilot - Oh shit that was sick. Now I can move on to another feature.
Building it myself - Oh my fucking goodness I'm a genius. I don't even need the damn AI tf.

After that experience my moral got a serious boost like never before. We developers don't need all this AI assistant bs. It takes away what it means to be a developer/engineer.

[variable_]

2030 hiring be like: "Minimum of 4 years work experience using Github Copilot"

because coding and understanding the code is so 2022.

[FloWoelki]

For me, it's so not ethical to use the data of public repositories to create an AI with a Paywall.
But funny video as always :D

[jimlahey]

This has to be possibly the BEST channel for upcoming/experienced programmers. The videos are super concise and informative, not to mention how well the humor ties in to each topic. Probably my favorite editing/video style.

[Lucax]

"...but right now it feels a lot like we're paying Microsoft for the privilege of digging our own graves."

I laughed out so loud :D

Thank You!!!

[yash]

0:58 the animation regarding the flat-earthers was first of its kind that i have ever seen