Copilot is great, but a hundred bucks for what is basically a smart autocomplete seems a bit much - mostly, I hate the fact that the code is constantly transmitted to github (my repos are mostly local) - are there any reasonably convenient options for doing this without github looking over my shoulder all the time? I’m using VSCode but not wedded to it.
Why would you use copilot in the first place! Is it that hard to write code in a simple text editor like vim?
I use VS Codium, which seems to have a lot of home-phoning disabled although I really don’t trust Microsoft code still somehow doing its thing now and then
You could try HF Code Autocomplete VSCode extension. That would allow you to use open-source LLMs like https://github.com/bigcode-project/starcoder.
I tried a few and Codeium is the best
https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot is an OSS alternative, don’t know how viable it is. https://codeium.com is commercial, but has a free tier that seems to offer most of what CoPilot offers.
