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Is this a "product" that one could install and use or a model that one should expect an OEM to integrate into a product before programmers can use it? I'm asking because I don't see any links that would help me figure out how to try it out.

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To be honest, you’d better buy GitHub co-pilot and enjoy the productivity boost at a cheap price. Trying to download/install/setup/use StableCode is worth it only if you want to learn all those steps as well. If what you care is the final result, just buy an existing service.

I have bought into co-pilot, but I can’t say it’s that much of a productivity boost. More often than not it recommends something completely wrong. I guess it might be more useful if I did more spring boot or maybe hibernate.

I’ve found chat gpt to be more helpful in general. I can paste some code in and have a discussion about what I want it to fix for me.

I may put all my open source stuff on GitHub, but hell will freeze over before I willingly let Microsoft get a whiff of my private data, no matter how irrelevant it may be.

GitHub Copilot sounds pretty neat though, I will admit that.

I didn’t have a good experience with copilot. It was ok for some auto completions, but I found it very distracting to correct it many times when it didn’t do well. It’s like it interrupted my flow. Maybe there is a shortcut to enable it on demand rather than always on, but it wasn’t obvious in the Jetbrains plugin

Yeah, why not upload all my employer's proprietary code to Microsoft? What could possibly go wrong?

I get that consuming an API is far easier than setting up your own inference backend, but there are legitimate issues to consider before going in that direction.

Ctrl-F for “Code for using StableCode Instruct to generate a response to a given instruction.” and you’ll see a super straightforward piece of code to copy to test it out for generating code

Thanks! The verbiage at the beginning of the announcement seems to go out of its way to not call StableCode a "model," which was confusing. By contrast, the recent release of SDXL 1.0 is described as a "model" in its announcement.

Yes, the model is available. However, it just released so no one has wrapped it in a plugin yet. I would expect that within the month there will be a nicely runnable local version, similar to llama2's wrappers.

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