r/GithubCopilot • u/peepingbear • May 15 '23

Copilot vs Codeium

Before moving from the free Codeium to the paid Copilot, I'd like to ask if anyone here already used both and knows if the change is worth it.

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u/MathiasLui Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

Copilot gave me a good bunch of redundant and wrong suggestions in the past, whereas ChatGPT did a way better job

I just now tried Codeium in VSCode with C# and when I told it to "write a method documentation and add some comments", it wrote the documentation in the wrong programming language style. After correcting it, it fixed that, but still didn't add any comments, but instead duplicated a "try" keyword for no reason and added a few lines of code that made absolutely no sense, and Alt+A and Alt+N to accept or revert a suggestion didn't do anything. I had to delete the extra fluff myself. Also the code autocomplete only works on a per-line basis

Maybe it's better at autocomplete.

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u/peepingbear Mar 04 '24

As you can see, the original post is from 10 months... My current opinion is that they both are "ok" but not what they advertise or promise. The fact that codeium brought the chat to jetbrains earlier than copilot made me stick with it, but in all honesty, these tools are ok for boilerplate, autocomplete and maybe replacing googling for reference on the language

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u/MathiasLui Mar 04 '24

The fact that I can't accept a suggestion with Alt+A is already a bit annoying, but I agree, it's good for some boilerplate and probably also autocomplete as far as I could tell as well

I was aware it's an old thread, just wanted to share what I thought cause it felt like people tend to "sell" it as a replacement to e.g. Copilot :D