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Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by anotherpaulg »

caesil wrote: post #16

Is this similar to cursor.sh, or does it have advantages over that product? It's hard to tell if "knows your entire codebase" refers to small-context-window retrieval-augmented generation or something like loading all your code into Claude 100k. Also, an ask: a voice-to-text input would be earthshatteringly cool. I am waiting with bated breath for the coming moment where it becomes possible to code for extended perio…

My open source ai coding tool has voice-to-code support.

https://aider.chat/docs/voice.html

Plus it also "knows your entire codebase" too:

https://aider.chat/docs/ctags.html

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by anotherpaulg »

ghiculescu wrote: post #2

As a Sublime Text user I really wish more of these tools worked outside of VS Code.

My open source ai pair programming tool runs in the terminal. You can work alongside in whichever editor you prefer.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by redhale »

siva7 wrote: post #3

Can’t be worse than Github Copilot so i’m giving it a try.

I'm just curious -- what specific issues have you had with Copilot?

I use it constantly (probably accepting a suggestion for every few seconds of typing), to the point where I'm starting to just not think about it anymore like I previously didn't think about normal autocomplete. It has written hundreds of perfect unit tests for me (perfect as in I have read the code and it matches virtually exactly what I would have written down to comments and variable names). That's so much mundane low-value typing that I just didn't have to do. Write the name of the test, hit tab, review, and move to the next.

It's certainly not perfect, and you must ALWAYS review what it suggests rather than blindly accepting, but it's incredibly valuable imo.

For reference, I use Copilot in both Rider and VS Code.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by mdale »

If would be very helpful if we had articles comparing this and other code assist solutions (mainly copilot)

When marketing Cody ideally it would have a comparison and statements per the ease of switching from copilot. Happy copilot customers are your most likely adopters.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by sqs »

thurn wrote: post #60
yosito wrote: post #28

I've been trying to use Cody, but the user experience has been so bad that I've mostly given up. There is no clear instruction about how to add/remove repos, or how to get Cody to recognize the current repo you're in. And the UI seems poorly planned, with missing, hidden and inconsistent buttons. I spend more time figuring out how to get Cody to work than I save by using it. I think it has potential, but they serious…

I also went to try it out and gave up in frustration. Getting "embeddings" in particular seems critical to having it work well but also extraordinarily hard to try out, I'm not actually sure if you are required to pay sourcegraph money for that feature before you can use it or not.

Sorry. You don't need to pay for embeddings. What did not work for you? If the desktop app is where you ran into trouble, you can start with the editor extension (see https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody#readme) and just sign in via Sourcegraph.com instead of your local desktop app.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by JZL003 »

I use more scientific computing and I've found it amazingly, surprisingly good. Academic programming has some quirks where they might use a single character variable name, passed along to multiple functions. So if I'm 3 functions deep, I have a hard time tracking it - it gets it very often.

Even some versions of "I want to do this, how would I modify the code to make it happen" works pretty good

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by dgellow »

How outdated are the dataset used to train Cody? Something I find frustrating with ChatGPT4 is that it is still blocked in 2021, making it a pain to use with more recent libraries or frameworks. I’ve been doing some unreal engine development this year, and while ChatGPT knows UE4 really well it often provides me with outdated APIs or concepts when trying to learn UE5 C++. If Cody can directly learn from UE5 sources, that would be awesome.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by adocomplete »

JZL003 wrote: post #66

I use more scientific computing and I've found it amazingly, surprisingly good. Academic programming has some quirks where they might use a single character variable name, passed along to multiple functions. So if I'm 3 functions deep, I have a hard time tracking it - it gets it very often. Even some versions of "I want to do this, how would I modify the code to make it happen" works pretty good

That is so awesome to hear!
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