Very cool stuff, I was wondering if there is any tool like this days ago. Cannot wait to test it.
Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
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Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#22Do Bloop searches also include the license of the code it returns? For example, if a search returns code copied from a GPL 3 project, will it let users know they need to comply with the GPL?
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#23Does this have a future as a editor plugin?
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#24How does YC spit out so many GPT based startups recently, so soon after the LLM mainstream hype started (including ones that were founded years prior)? Is Sam Altman still involved in YC?
Well looks like they are from last year so they must’ve modified their business
We've been working on semantic code search since the start of 2021. You can see details our first iteration here https://www.producthunt.com/products/bloop-2#bloop-3
The main shift was moving from the IDE to our own standalone app. We found the IDE sidebar to be too constrained visually for many code search related workflows.
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#25From 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…
Why do I care if they have custom proprietary embedding model or not? Why is OpenAI any less trust worthy than Codeium? I imagine people care about quality of results more, and I'm doubtful Codeium's proprietary embedding is better than GPT4.
Also most of your comment history is self promotion for Codeium which is not a great look.
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#26Do Bloop searches also include the license of the code it returns? For example, if a search returns code copied from a GPL 3 project, will it let users know they need to comply with the GPL?
Unless I'm mistaken Bloop is about searching your own codebase, not public code. It would never bring back code that isn't already in your codebase.
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#27Do Bloop searches also include the license of the code it returns? For example, if a search returns code copied from a GPL 3 project, will it let users know they need to comply with the GPL?
Unless I'm mistaken Bloop is about searching your own codebase, not public code. It would never bring back code that isn't already in your codebase.
Being license aware is a good thing, lots of codebases uses many different licenses.
I could also see this being useful for local code repos of open source code. I haven't looked, but it could be a combination of LXR (linux cross reference) project and an ML powered code understanding engine.
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#28From 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
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#29From 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?
Re: Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
#30How does YC spit out so many GPT based startups recently, so soon after the LLM mainstream hype started (including ones that were founded years prior)? Is Sam Altman still involved in YC?
I see it from the other side. LLMs are so commoditized that it’s super easy to add GPT to anything you can think of.