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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 #12

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!

I'm curious why you're using your key? I want to try this out on my work codebase, but for security reasons it would be better to use my own key, since I don't know if OpenAI might decide to share API search history with whoever owns the key.

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

#32
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?

It's funny to see how half of HN frontpage in the past weeks has been Show HN thin wrappers around an API call to ChatGPT disguised as full startups.

All while HN posters were warning us about a flood of low quality AI generated content, well, here it is in one of its forms.

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

#34
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless I'm mistaken Bloop is about searching your own codebase, not public code. It would never bring back code that isn't already in your codebase.

Being license aware is a good thing, lots of codebases uses many different licenses. I could also see this being useful for local code repos of open source code. I haven't looked, but it could be a combination of LXR (linux cross reference) project and an ML powered code understanding engine.

Tracing the source of a result is one of the key advantages of code search vs generation.

I think an easy way to read licenses from the snippet view is a good idea.

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

#35
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use the prebuilt desktop version or cloud, it uses our OpenAI key. And thanks, will update the site!

I'm curious why you're using your key? I want to try this out on my work codebase, but for security reasons it would be better to use my own key, since I don't know if OpenAI might decide to share API search history with whoever owns the key.

It wouldn’t be a free version if you have to bring your own key. I agree an option would be a good idea.

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

#36

"Precise code navigation in 10+ languages helps you move quickly through refs and defs" I can't find any mention of which languages are supported - can anyone point me in the right direction?

We currently support Go, JS/TS, JSX/TSX, Python, Rust, C#, Java, C/C++

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

#38
post #37

I have to ask the obvious question, with GPT4 able to write code to solve the problem itself, why would I bother searching for existing code?

Presumably you want to see how things are being used presently, otherwise you risk breaking it.

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

#39
Very interesting. I want you to know that

> ‘Private’ here means that no code is shared with us or OpenAI at index time, and when a search is made only relevant code snippets are shared to generate the response. (This is more or less the same data usage as Copilot).

is the reason I went from "ha, cool tool" to "okay, let me go download it".

Quite surprised that you don't actually have a login wall to download. Missing an opportunity to track downloads, upsell to paid plan, etc. etc. imho.

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