728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium

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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