FYI: Kite as a company had a backlash from the community after they acquired popular Python packages and injected their spyware and ads. So far they've learnt from that lesson, but who knows if they'll stay that way.
AI-Powered JavaScript Completions
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#22Reminder that Kite hijacked data in the past [0]. Why should it be trusted now?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?
It says it right in the blog post. VSCode only does fuzzy matching for javascript. This is an "intelligent" autocomplete, so the suggestions should be better.
Fuzzy matching is done almost never, even ordinary intellisense is type aware
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#24How is this better than any IDE anyways? The examples look trivial and don’t seem even better than ultisnips for vim, forget IntelliJ. Are there better examples anywhere?
I can only speak about TabNine which appears to be very similar. It doesn’t just complete on APIs, it actually understands the code you’re writing. It will suggest variable names based on patterns, it will suggest what you initialize your variables to based on what they’re called. It will suggest comments based on the context. Sometimes you can just write the name of a function, and then tab through the suggestions l…
1. IntelliJ also suggest variable names based on patterns.
2. Is there any good example of it suggesting good comments? AFAIK, comments are hard even for humans to write, so if they are able to generate good comments, it should be a major advance in NLP.
3. I don't believe this. Unless these are very trivial functions which are copy pasted across the internet, this is very hard. Is there any showcase or example where I can see this for myself?
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#25FYI: Kite as a company had a backlash from the community after they acquired popular Python packages and injected their spyware and ads. So far they've learnt from that lesson, but who knows if they'll stay that way.
That’s actually worse than the last time I remember them being in the limelight for questionable privacy regarding sending your code to their servers.
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#26Any reason to use this over TabNine[1]? I’ve been using that for months, and only have good things to say about it. It’s like it’s reading your mind. Strong recommendation. 1: https://www.tabnine.com
I agree that it's wonderful, it impresses me every day. When I saw kite I immediately thought about TabNine.
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#27FYI: Kite as a company had a backlash from the community after they acquired popular Python packages and injected their spyware and ads. So far they've learnt from that lesson, but who knows if they'll stay that way.
That’s actually worse than the last time I remember them being in the limelight for questionable privacy regarding sending your code to their servers.
Yes, code extraction is deeply worrying. I installed Kite once, but never enabled it for this reason.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?
The link has examples of how this is different than VS Code.
Intellicode is an extension add on from Microsoft. It's not default in VS Code. It doesn't look like they're making a distinction here.
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#29Adam from Kite here. The team and I are thrilled to launch our new deep learning engine for JavaScript completions. After years of work building our Python product — now to over 250,000 monthly active users — we decided we were ready to expand a new language. JavaScript was a clear choice given how well it pairs with Python, and it was the our most-requested language. We took what we learned from building our Python…
Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?
Hi there, thanks for the question.
IntelliCode has a similar vision but uses much simpler models. IntelliCode can essentially give you to the top 5 attributes for a global type.
Kite uses statistical models which are orders of magnitude larger and richer, both in terms of the context they understand and the sophistication of the completions provided.
Here is a good example from the blog post:
var server = express(); server.
use, set, get, listen
use(bodyParser.json
Finally, IntelliCode only returns completions for attributes (foo.) whereas Kite returns deep learning completions in all the places they are useful.
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#30I've been using https://www.tabnine.com/ for similar AI/deep learning autocompletion, highly recommended.
I was going to mention this. TabNine supports more languages, how does Kite's product differ?