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Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

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Re: Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

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The decision to open source is surprising at first glance. But it makes a lot of sense. With the greatly enhanced coding productivity, the ROI for tweaking open source tools is quite high. This puts closed source tools at a significant disadvantage in terms of customization. They are a little late to the AI coding assistant market, this move enables them to capture market share rapidly and slow down the competitors in building up data moat.

Re: Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

#16
post #8

I wonder if there is anything like this for a notebook-style UI? I’m a fan of how Observable does it.

You're a mind-reader!

We currently have a notebooks UI (e.g., https://sourcegraph.com/notebooks/Tm90ZWJvb2s6MTg1NA==), but the plan is to roll Cody into this and make it a super rich UI for learning/understanding anything and everything about code

Re: Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

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post #5

How much would it cost to use Cody with Sourcegraph? I don’t see a price in the article

Cody is free to use and doesn't strictly require Sourcegraph. It can make use of Sourcegraph APIs (e.g., code search, soon find refs) to improve its context fetching. We hope to integrate other dev tool APIs (e.g., monitoring, tracing, etc.) as well.

Sourcegraph is also free to use and downloadable as a local app (https://docs.sourcegraph.com/app) or you can use sourcegraph.com for open source. Our intention is to sell to teams/companies, while making tools for individual devs free to use. There have been a few cases in the past where we've misstepped and come across as selling to individual devs. If this ever happens, please flag to me (https://twitter.com/beyang) or sqs (https://twitter.com/sqs) directly and we'll correct it.

Re: Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

#20
I am confused of what is being open sourced here. What I've managed to read from announcements and README I find myself being funnelled to Discord and Sourcegraph cloud services. I'm trying to understand what is what here.

I think there's three components that are needed to have the best (admittedly enticing) experience: Cody itself, Sourcegraph at the background (optionally) and an LLM called Claude from Anthropic. Claude is very much proprietary. Sourcegraph is open core, but to use it as a Cody's "helper" do I need those proprietary features? Without Claude and Sourcegraph Enterprise/Cloud what can Cody do, say with LLama based LLM, should this integration happen?

Again, what I've read, taken at face value, seems really promising. I've used Sourcegraph a few times in the past and sometimes wondered how it would benefit in my commercial work. Having an LLM could make this a next level tool, possibly something that regular chat-type LLM based services don't currently do.

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