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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?

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[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

Probably. I just reactivated it. It took almost a week to refresh. No idea why.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

contact support and I'm sure they will be able to assist in reactivating your student benefits

[–] swordsmanluke@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

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.)