Creating your own GitHub Copilot with Fauxpilot
Fauxpilot is a self-hosted code suggestion platform that supports multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, or Javascript. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, created it as an alternative approach to GitHub Copilot.
FauxPilot relies on the Salesforce CodeGen, a large-scale language model for conversational artificial technology (AI) programming. Using FauxPilot, you get rid of repetitive code. Instead, you can spend your time focusing on the business logic that your application needs to address.
Why Use Fauxpilot?
GitHub Copilot is a popular commercial tool that generates code, helping developers to code more efficiently. However, it sends the snippets of your code back to Microsoft’s servers to suggest code for you. This hinders the violation of licensing and brings exploitable vulnerability concerns as code is traveled to multiple places.
Fauxpilot works merely using the training models of Codegen and does not send your code anywhere. Thus, it is more secure than GitHub Copilot.
