How to setup Fauxpilot

 

In this article, you would learn to configure Fauxpilot, which can help you to program.

What is Fauxpilot?

It is a LLM(large language model)-based code generation AI, an open-source alternative for the famous Copilot. However, Copilot belongs to OpenAI and it is not free for everyone, and it could be risky to expose the private code to copilot. So I am looking for a more controllable alternative.

Thanks to the effort made from the community. That’s it.

It is easy to install Fauxpilot, except some notice:

  • Only LTS Ubuntu system is supported by NVIDIA container, so make sure your version number ends with “.04”.
  • Building triton image requires large amount of disk space, and please make sure you have enough remaining space (maybe 30-40 GB).
  • Choose suitable models, e.g., the 350M version (3GB VRAM needed) is good.

Enjoy it!