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       Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to
       GitHub Copilot
        
       Author : srikanth235
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2024-01-17 16:48 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | ignoramous wrote:
       | Nice.
       | 
       | > _Some of the popular LLMs that we recommend are: Mistral,
       | CodeLLama_
       | 
       | 1. Surprised _Mistral_ ( _Mixtral_?) is recommended for code
       | generation  / explanation alongside a fine-tuned _CodeLlama_?
       | 
       | 2. Recent human evals put Microsoft's _WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B_
       | (SoTA w / GPT4) at the top of the rankings with _WizardCoder-33B_
       | , _Magiccoder-S-DS-6.7B_ trailing:
       | https://twitter.com/TeamCodeLLM_AI/status/174755128687745064...
        
         | ParetoOptimal wrote:
         | Typically when a 6.7B model or similar beats a 33B model it's
         | not really true in my experience. At the least I have very a
         | high burden of proof before believing it.
        
         | austhrow743 wrote:
         | Are you able explain what the charts mean? Only one of the
         | three has wavecoder at the top.
        
       | t0mk wrote:
       | I root for this, but runnign LLM locally disqualifies a lot of
       | workstations, for example laptops with integrated graphics.
        
         | accelbred wrote:
         | You can run it on a different machine. I've set up my desktop
         | to host ollama, and use it from my laptop just fine.
        
           | hiatus wrote:
           | Do you use continue.dev or privy with that setup?
        
       | jstummbillig wrote:
       | I am fairly confused by the amount of work people are willing to
       | devote to runner-up work in a field right, where the cutting edge
       | will likely 10x in a year. Unless, of course, the motivation is
       | not to create something actually useful but gaining experience
       | and then getting a job to work on that cutting edge.
       | 
       | Other than that: Let them cook and built the OSS stuff, when we
       | are off this hyper-scale trajectory. There is enough other stuff
       | where OSSing would actually be tremendously beneficial - and,
       | thanks to AI, actual value creation is simpler than ever before.
        
         | ignoramous wrote:
         | > _I am fairly confused by the amount of work people are
         | willing to devote to runner-up work_
         | 
         | You're not _entirely_ wrong, even if off-topic. See also:
         | https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
        
           | cybrox wrote:
           | Thanks for linking. This is actually very well written!
        
           | chrisweekly wrote:
           | Wow, that was an awesome post; funny and insightful. Thanks
           | for sharing!
        
       | spott wrote:
       | How is this different from continue.dev?
        
       | monknomo wrote:
       | maybe I'm showing my rural roots here, but a privy is an
       | outhouse. Of course, it also has the "secret" meaning, but...
        
         | tweetle_beetle wrote:
         | I suspect it's making use of the 'trusted personal advisor'
         | connotations, similar to the metaphor of having a co-pilot if
         | you will - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council
        
         | zik wrote:
         | Maybe it's referring to "code smell"?
        
       | lxe wrote:
       | Does it do AI autocomplete?
        
       | mmcclure wrote:
       | This seems really cool, thanks for sharing!
       | 
       | The thing I find the most valuable about Copilot is it living
       | directly in VSCode. Understand it's not trivial and this has one
       | public commit, but long-term do you have plans to move closer to
       | the editor?
       | 
       | How do you see this in relation to other projects like
       | continue.dev?
        
       | binary132 wrote:
       | I am finding myself questioning the choice of a name that also
       | means "toilet" or "outhouse", but hey, you do you.
        
       | lgrammel wrote:
       | So, you essentially took my project (
       | https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode ), and instead
       | of contributing to it or forking it, you recommitted all the code
       | under your own name, with a few small tweaks.
       | 
       | To be fair, I saw that you give credit, but it's kind of
       | disappointing still given that prob 98% of the project is the
       | work of the Rubberduck contributors. I know Rubberduck is not
       | that active any more, but it's still disappointing.
        
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