Published: Feb. 9, 2024, noon
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
- 00:00\xa0Welcome to Syntax!
- 05:31\xa0An introduction to Codeium.
- 07:56\xa0What information are you sending the AI to get such good completions?
- Codeium compliance
- 09:15\xa0Codeium runs a 'Language Server'.
- 11:15\xa0Crawling dependency tree and abstract syntax tree.
- 12:07\xa0Using Codeium Live.
- 12:34\xa0How big of a codebase can you run this on?
- 14:39\xa0Sending select amounts of data to AI.
- 16:06\xa0Does Codeium maintain codebase preferences and styling (ie. snake case)?
- 17:39\xa0Will Codeium scan the dependency?
- 19:23\xa0AI UI, have we found the best format?
- 21:55\xa0Crazy ideas in tech.
- 22:53\xa0Additional AI UI inputs.
- 24:14\xa0How do you make an AI model?
- 28:42\xa0How does Codeium manage the product roadmap?
- 32:09\xa0Do AI models get worse over time? How does Codeium validate that it's not?
- Open AI Evals
- 35:39\xa0How is Codeium THAT fast?
- 36:49\xa0What programming langauges does Codeium use?
- 38:55\xa0Codeium Playground.
- Codeium Playground
- 39:15\xa0Caching as a performance improvement.
- 39:58\xa0What is the pipe between Codeium and editor?
- 40:17\xa0Codeium chat service.
- 41:44\xa0A WebSocket system allowing push and pull communication.
- 43:13\xa0Closed Beta for GPT 4.0.
- 46:12\xa0The dreaded closing quote bug.
- 48:26\xa0Sometimes bugs bug Wes.
- 49:49\xa0Supper Club Questions
- 51:40\xa0Perplexity.ai
- 52:35\xa0What editor does Kevin use?
- 55:31\xa0Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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