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Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by louiskw »

tipsytoad wrote: post #6

Nitpick: get started and pricing buttons don't collapse the burger menu Also I assume I need an openai API key for this? I can't find that anywhere

If you use the prebuilt desktop version or cloud, it uses our OpenAI key.

And thanks, will update the site!

Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by sqs »

swyx wrote: post #2

congrats on launching! i honestly feel like a bad user for this but i have yet to adopt a semantic search engine for code for some reason, respite codeium and sourcegraph also offering more advanced code search thingies. any ideas on how to break force of habit?

The burden is on those products to compel you, not you to break a force of habit. :)

Code search historically has been adopted by 80%+ adoption. My model of LLMs applied to code search is that they make it so even a first-time user can use (easily, via the LLM) features that were previously only accessible to power users: regexps, precise code navigation, large-scale changes/refactors, diff search, other advanced search filters, and all kinds of other code metadata (ownership, dep graph, observability, deployment, runtime perf, etc.) that the code search engine knows. The code search engine itself is just used under the hood by the LLM to answer questions and write great code that uses your own codebase's conventions.

I bet you (and the ~90% of devs who don't use code search today) will be compelled when you see and use /that/.

Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by moneywoes »

brap wrote: post #3

How does YC spit out so many GPT based startups recently, so soon after the LLM mainstream hype started (including ones that were founded years prior)? Is Sam Altman still involved in YC?

Well looks like they are from last year so they must’ve modified their business

Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by ggordonhall »

shashanoid wrote: post #4

Cool, kinda like buildt.ai I used before. That cannot inject code. Can you do that? You're in YC I'd expect your products to better than what's out there.

We currently support code search which you can access through a conversational interface (think Bing Chat for your code). We don't currently support editing code but are looking into a mechanism to create pull requests from bloop.

Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by aunch »

From the Codeium (https://www.codeium.com) team here!

Exciting to see more teams take on the code search problem - modern pure regex definitely is a suboptimal solution.

Just to objectively highlight some of the similarities and differences between Bloop and Codeium Search (Codeium also provides Autocomplete) to a user:

- Both are free for individuals

- Both use a mix of AI and regex

- Bloop has both free local and paid cloud offerings, Codeium only works locally (but therefore doesn't work as well on super large codebases)

- Codeium uses custom proprietary embedding models so no dependency on OpenAI and no code is sent to a third party AI

Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

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Post by yieldcrv »

shashanoid wrote: post #4

Cool, kinda like buildt.ai I used before. That cannot inject code. Can you do that? You're in YC I'd expect your products to better than what's out there.

> You're in YC I'd expect your products to better than what's out there.

That's .... not what YC means. It just means the current mission for this collection of shares fit in the direction of their portfolio, with a heavy weighting to the "culture fit" of the founding team. Just like all private equity.

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