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I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side for a few days. And I have now decided to cancel all AI subscriptions except Claude 3.

For software development work, no other model comes close.

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+1, Claude 3 Opus is a game changer.

Since OP asked about a Copilot product, we (YC W23) actually built https://double.bot to do exactly this: high quality UX + most capable models. Although we don't have a subscription right now, it's free for the time being :)

At a glance, Double seems to be similar to Sourcegraph Cody - but Cody is half the price. What does Double offer that Cody doesnt?

Don’t have a subscription? What about this? [0]

Not that I mind a subscription, I’d pay it in a heartbeat if there were a JetBrains plugin.

[0] https://docs.double.bot/pricing

We implemented the subscription a few hours ago, and still hold a very generous free tier. Unfortunately, we learnt that it's not possible to have an uncapped free tier, we saw several abusers use our API to run their own apps which is obviously against the spirit of a coding copilot :)

JetBrains plugin is on the roadmap, soon!

Awesome, I'll be sure to try it out when the JetBrains plugin is available.

Looks great! Would you have plans to release a jetbrains plugin in future?

Free is even better ;), will take a look thanks..

For those who have read Vonnegut, the Claude logo is hilarious.

Any plans for Emacs support?

How do you get access to Claude 3? It doesn’t seem to be available yet.

I've only used it through third party services but I think it's available both on their site and as an API. Can't confirm though, I'm in Europe.

https://double.bot for VS Code works really well for me. https://writingmate.ai/labs for typical browser chat ui (looks ok on mobile too).

Wasn't aware that it's not widely available but if you can't find it anywhere else, we have it available in our free tier on Double: https://double.bot

Are you planning to offer plugins for other IDEs, like IntelliJ?

Isn't it available via bedrock already?

Only Sonnet, unless there is a special release group that have access to the other models.

Not sure what bedrock is, but last time I looked at their website it claimed it isn't available in my region.

I'm in Ireland, so I interpreted that as "Not out yet".

Here is a list of countries Claude is available: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8461763-where-can-...

Lots of countries in that list... but none from the EU :(

Also no Canada for some reason??

> I'm in Ireland, so I interpreted that as "Not out yet".

What I interpret it as is "Not compliant with GDPR yet".

Another option: Kagi's chat feature lets you choose Claude 3 Opus (or GPT-4 or Mistral).

You have to pay for Kagi Ultimate ($25/month) to access it I think.

claude.ai

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