In this supper club, Scott and Wes welcome Kevin Hou, Head of Product Engineering at Codeium, a blazing fast AI-powered code completion and chat tool for developers.
Show Notes
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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
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05:31 An introduction to Codeium.
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07:56 What information are you sending the AI to get such good completions?
- Codeium compliance
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09:15 Codeium runs a 'Language Server'.
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11:15 Crawling dependency tree and abstract syntax tree.
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12:07 Using Codeium Live.
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12:34 How big of a codebase can you run this on?
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14:39 Sending select amounts of data to AI.
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16:06 Does Codeium maintain codebase preferences and styling (ie. snake case)?
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17:39 Will Codeium scan the dependency?
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19:23 AI UI, have we found the best format?
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21:55 Crazy ideas in tech.
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22:53 Additional AI UI inputs.
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24:14 How do you make an AI model?
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28:42 How does Codeium manage the product roadmap?
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32:09 Do AI models get worse over time? How does Codeium validate that it's not?
- Open AI Evals
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35:39 How is Codeium THAT fast?
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36:49 What programming langauges does Codeium use?
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38:55 Codeium Playground.
- Codeium Playground
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39:15 Caching as a performance improvement.
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39:58 What is the pipe between Codeium and editor?
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40:17 Codeium chat service.
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41:44 A WebSocket system allowing push and pull communication.
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43:13 Closed Beta for GPT 4.0.
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46:12 The dreaded closing quote bug.
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48:26 Sometimes bugs bug Wes.
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49:49 Supper Club Questions
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51:40 Perplexity.ai
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52:35 What editor does Kevin use?
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55:31 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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