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

Post by aunch » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:35 PM UTC

phphphphp wrote: post #28

aunch wrote: post #19

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…

Posting about your company when relevant is one thing, advertising it another’s launch thread is another, and it’s pretty gauche… especially when, in this very thread, one of your testimonials is saying he doesn’t actually use your product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236557

Post by eddsh1994 » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #49

tkiolp4 wrote: post #46

I don’t understand these new saas that rely on GPT. It surely is my lack of understanding, but since the interface to GPT is mainly text: why any company would pay for N different GPT saas (e.g., one for searching for code, another for searching for documentation on confluence, another for allowing your business analysts with their queries, etc.)? Wouldn’t it make more sense for any company to have only ONE interface…

The point is that the interface to Bloop (or whatever 3rd party SaaS product) is just plain text. In programming parlance I would call this a facade [1] on top of GPT-4. The benefit is that you, the end user, can just continue typing things like "Where do we create our database pool?" in a search box, but under the covers Bloop can use GPT-4, but then eventually upgrade to GPT-5, GPT-6, or some other much better curr…

Post by aunch » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:37 PM UTC

awfulneutral wrote: post #29

aunch wrote: post #19

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…

Just to be clear, since you say it's local, when you say no code is sent to a third party AI that includes Codeium? For search and indexing, code is not sent over the network at all?

Post by evrydayhustling » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:38 PM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #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. Missin…

Post by kubota » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:40 PM UTC

eddsh1994 wrote: post #53

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is that the interface to Bloop (or whatever 3rd party SaaS product) is just plain text. In programming parlance I would call this a facade [1] on top of GPT-4. The benefit is that you, the end user, can just continue typing things like "Where do we create our database pool?" in a search box, but under the covers Bloop can use GPT-4, but then eventually upgrade to GPT-5, GPT-6, or some other much better curr…

Agreed that may be the case but all OpenAI needs to do is release a nice UI for GPT and they've suddenly pushed these SaaS out of the market. Why fund miners over the companies making pickaxes?