728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, noon

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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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