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We have not announced anything formally RE fundraising, but we are well funded and growing the team quickly. All offers include competitive equity.

> it's always more worthwhile to debate and work with people who have to consistently match their predictions against reality Yes! Fast, clear feedback loops provide such a boost!

If it’s helpful here is the prompt I use to clean up voice-memo transcripts: https://gist.github.com/adamsmith/2a22b08d3d4a11fb9fe06531ae...

For Python's syntax: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html If you want examples of code → ast, googling for [python ast visualizer] turns up a few tools

There’s a lot to unpack in the quoted passage, but it is not an ad hominem attack. That you think it is, and then turn around to make an ad hominem argument of your own explains yo…

If anything this will turn out to be the opposite of the truth: People hit by autonomous cars will have more to go after in court than those hit by individuals, many of whom don't …

Ivan Sutherland wrote one of my all-time favorite pieces, called Technology and Courage. It's a short read, here: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/smli_ps-1.pdf He talks about the cour…

Thank you Quinn! It's been both cool and instructive to see Sourcegraph take off. Godspeed!

It could be doing some "fine tuning" based on the repo. That would be cool! That said, what I meant when referring to 'understanding' the non-local nature of code was in a more pri…

Does it seem to only understand imports of public libraries? If so, it's likely that, rather than understanding the contents of those libraries, it's learning from others' use of t…

Yes, this was precisely what I was referring to. In small-enough programs (e.g. one file) Copilot has all the context. The other extreme would be something like the Chromium codeba…

The higher the frequency the more data you can send. This is known as the Shannon Limit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem

Super interesting question. I don't know. I suspect they will dominate all the largest technology markets for the long run, unless the government intervenes. I might be wrong. They…

> I've tried to explain this to VC firms. Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments. Would that mean sitting on too many boards? Don't sit on their b…

Yes, there are orders of magnitude of scale in both fields. In software it can cost $10k to build an app but Google Search costs $10^10: a six orders of magnitude difference. In mu…

The turnarounds always happen quickly after the fed takes serious action. Consider the 2008 crisis, or take 1933 (I believe?) when we broke from the gold standard: immediate exit f…

Hi there, Kite at most about half of what TabNine uses, often less than that.

Thanks for the thoughtful message! We hope you'll give Kite another shot. We're always improving it and have covered a lot of ground in the last few years. In particular, a common …

We hear you. We agree this was a mistake, and over the ~three years since then we've listened to the community, for example by releasing local processing for Kite.

Thanks, we believe we fixed this. Could you try again? Thanks for your patience!

Hi there, thanks for the question. IntelliCode has a similar vision but uses much simpler models. IntelliCode can essentially give you to the top 5 attributes for a global type. Ki…

Adam from Kite here. The team and I are thrilled to launch our new deep learning engine for JavaScript completions. After years of work building our Python product — now to over 25…

Hi, this is Adam from Kite. Thanks for checking us out and for the write-up! The DGPU point caught my attention. Kite should only use CPU, even for its tensorflow tasks. Could you …