Codeium - It's GitHub CoPilot ...But FREE!

Today we are looking at the AI powered coding assistant and chat bot Codeium. It works a lot like GitHub's CotPilot except in one major area... it's free! Well at least for individuals it is free. It also has plugin support for pretty much every single major IDE or code editor from Visual Studio Code to Vim and EMACS.

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[justanothernobody]

The problem with these "free" AI services that are popping up constantly now is that nearly all of them eventually change to a subscription only model. They literally just use the free aspect as intial marketing to generate a following. We've been seeing this same thing play out in the generative AI image creation space for the last year now.

This one does say free forever though so we'll see if that holds true.

[ORANOID]

Half of the video: useful overview Second half: Mike mocking copilot

[domportera]

I have a copilot subscription through work, and in the last month disabled it in my IDE in favor of codeium. for C# its recommendations are probably at aboit 90% of quality of copilot, but the difference is that Codeium is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE faster for auto-completion suggestions. that kind of benefit cant be beat imo - especially given the current quality limits of these sorts of tools. it's super nice too that whenever it is i choose to go pro, i can give codeium a ton more context or even host it locally. huge microsoft L, love to see it

[JohnneyleeRollins]

I’m pretty careful about whose “ai” service I allow to read my disk though. Same security concerns as running third party software

[stevereid]

Been using this in vscode for nearly a year and I'm still blown away by the way Codeium has increased my productivity 🤯

[tobinrysenga]

Now we just need a Godot plugin so we can use the in-built editor :)

[Parker]

Glad to hear about where they get the training data from; that's my main concern with the majority of AI tooling at the moment.

[viddarkking]

This is excellent not only for professionals but also for students.
Having an over commented script we can use to learn what everything does can help young coders learn enough to catch the AI's mistakes.
Even as AIs do all of the typing.

[sandman]

I had tried it some time ago (maybe even a year) and found it a bit limited in supported languages, I had obtained better results with copilot. I tried it again just a few days ago and was positively impressed by how many they added. I hadn't enabled chat at the time because it required particular permissions for data... having seen the video and how useful it can be, I'll have to reevaluate

[wreckingballgames]

Thanks. I was just looking into some AI assistance since it's probably not going away anytime soon. I also appreciate you not spreading FUD like so many others do about AI. AI is not a human error remover; it is a human error multiplier. I think we're already past the "Goldilocks" point for AI model training.

[draadhaai]

Thanks for the suggestion mike! Let me test this with Lua, the love framework and VS Code. Wonder what the outcome will be.

[KevinReadOz]

After watching your video and testing codeium, i am more than impressed. In fact - just hit the cancel button on the $100 p.a. Co-Pilot subscription. THX

[ScaerieTale]

Hahaha oh thank God, I thought I was the only one who actually didn't like copilot's implementation. I mean, the concept was always great, but I felt like I was constantly fighting it or going back and correcting things (disclaimer: I only used it while it was in beta. It wasn't worth $10 when it launched). This looks neat, though. I will absolutely be checking this out!

[RebelliousX]

Guys, beware it is CodeEium not Codium .. totally different sites and extensions. I missed the E and was sent to la la land.

[maxxnsane]

Thank you. I have just ended my 6 months of paid Copilot.
I was using it to autocomplete the repetitive parts of the code, not heavely relying on it.
Having the same thing for free it seems a really good option.

[repairstudio]

Bro you saved my life!!! ❤🎉
Liked and Subbed and high fived and fist bumped ... ✊🏻

[arjitmishra]

I'm using it from almost 5 6 months and it has only gotten better.

[nathanb]

Unless it's a local LLM, it's gonna start charging eventually. LLMs are too expensive for a free model.

[erikjohnson]

8:08 It took a moment to decipher "lat and see". I'm pretty sure this is the Canadian word for latency.

[arthurpizza]

Even if it's not free forever, eventually there will be a model you run locally to do this.