I used to use GitHub Copilot with my student developer pack. I renewed my license a few days ago and Copilot stopped working and when I try to reactivate it in my settings it says I have to pay.
Did they remove copilot access from the student dev pack benefits?
4 Comments
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
GitHub Universe conference was yesterday and today. They talked about providing co-pilot for free to students during one of the talks. So I'm going to guess it's just a mistake.
Maybe they messed something up while they were making a new feature go live.l?
moonleay@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Probably. I just reactivated it. It took almost a week to refresh. No idea why.
stifle867@programming.dev · -1 pts · 2y
contact support and I'm sure they will be able to assist in reactivating your student benefits
swordsmanluke@programming.dev · -1 pts · 2y
Depending on your ide of choice, I'd also recommend Codeium (with an "e" - Codium is something else) as an alternative. If you sign up during their currently ongoing EA phase, you can get a free lifetime account.
I've used both and I haven't noticed any major difference in the quality of results. If there is a difference at all, I've personally had better generations from Codeium, but the overall difference is slight.
(For comparison's sake, this was with Python and Ruby so far.)