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Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#101
post #76

"We don't store any code on our servers after initial processing" Are you storing the embedding vectors you've calculated from the code? If so, those are likely quite easily reversible - so I would still consider that source code stored on your servers from the point of view of a security audit. As a result, I might actually prefer to have copies of my code stored on your servers if it resulted in faster performance.

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Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#102
post #92

Love this idea and am just signed up. Thanks for the promo code! Also, I really like your blog post about shipping faster: https://greptile.com/blog/ship-faster . Shipping code is so fun that we should all be looking for ways to do more of it.

Btw, your service might be down right now. It just ingested my private repo but won't answer any questions.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#106

Looks good, but there are many competitors that do exactly the same thing (even opensource ones)

[not part of greptile]

I can only think of two serious competitors, neither of which is open source. And I don't think anyone serious at either of those companies would claim that they have the definitive solution.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#107

Looks like some kind of bug on repos w/ many branches. Loading https://github.com/datastax/cassandra/ , I search for `vsearch` and it presents me with CNDB-8708-vsearch and DSP-23946-vsearch, but not vsearch itself.

Interesting, haven't seen that before. Thanks for pointing out - looking at it now.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#108
post #27

I've been looking for something like this, but local-only. Any plans to let people self-host and point at local repositories?

[not part of greptile]

I've given it a fairly serious shot and my conclusion is that building IDE hooks is seriously depressing. IntelliJ deprecates APIs constantly and the docs don't really keep up.

And then there's the total dumpster fire that is trying to support GPU acceleration on multiple platforms.

Unfortunately it's easily 10x the work to do this kind of thing local only.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

#110
post #27

I've been looking for something like this, but local-only. Any plans to let people self-host and point at local repositories?

We’ve been grappling with making it local but two considerations 1. Haven’t figured out what should trigger updates. Every commit sounds crazy, every save would be perfect but too intensive also. 2. LLMs will not be self hosted. We haven’t been able to get the same results with any smaller LLMs To answer your questions we definitely want to make this available for local repos and ideally self hosted, on a technical l…

Every save would work. You just ("just") need good caching. Cursor nails this. https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1750023209733464559
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