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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 sqs »

theusus wrote: post #47
sqs wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're working on rolling that all into the editor extension itself, so if you just have the Cody editor extension now, you'll see it getting better context. Can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody .

Will that allow me to ask about certain files? and imports?

Yes, it will. And if you have specific things in mind you want to ask it (or kinds of code you want it to generate for you), we always love to hear that kind of stuff (in a discussion topic at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody or on our Discord).

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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r_thambapillai wrote: post #50

Is it possible to use our own LLM account if we have anthropic or open AI accounts?

It's something we'd like to add (and you can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody), but in beta we're still focused on making it really lovable on the most popular config path rather than exploding the number of possible ways people could configure Cody. We do support "bring your own LLM account" for customers using Cody for all their devs, but that hasn't yet made its way to client-side config in the editor extension.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by r_thambapillai »

sqs wrote: post #52
r_thambapillai wrote: post #50

Is it possible to use our own LLM account if we have anthropic or open AI accounts?

It's something we'd like to add (and you can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody ), but in beta we're still focused on making it really lovable on the most popular config path rather than exploding the number of possible ways people could configure Cody. We do support "bring your own LLM account" for customers using Cody for all their devs, but that hasn't yet made its way to client-side config in the…

Got it, thanks! For context, Im at Credal.ai (an LLM governance platform), and we have a shared customer who I'm pretty sure does fall into that description with you (use Cody for all their devs), and keeps asking us about whether they can use Cody in conjunction with Credal.ai (bring your own LLM account is probably all that would be needed to support this). We'd also be open to contributing this for what its worth!

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by sqs »

r_thambapillai wrote: post #54
sqs wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's something we'd like to add (and you can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody ), but in beta we're still focused on making it really lovable on the most popular config path rather than exploding the number of possible ways people could configure Cody. We do support "bring your own LLM account" for customers using Cody for all their devs, but that hasn't yet made its way to client-side config in the…

Got it, thanks! For context, Im at Credal.ai (an LLM governance platform), and we have a shared customer who I'm pretty sure does fall into that description with you (use Cody for all their devs), and keeps asking us about whether they can use Cody in conjunction with Credal.ai (bring your own LLM account is probably all that would be needed to support this). We'd also be open to contributing this for what its worth!

Awesome. Check out the existing docs for "bring your own LLM account" on the server side at https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cody/overview/enable-cody-enter..., and let us know if that suffices or if more is needed. You can also email me (email in profile) if it would help to mention customer names in private.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by dmix »

anonymous344 wrote: post #17
ghiculescu wrote: post #2

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

open sublime> start working open vsc> 22 update popups and notifications + permission nags. > mojo gone

? I never have any update popups in Code. Are you on windows?

The only notification upon init is Copilot requesting Github login which probably uses an OAuth token that expires quickly.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by dewey-decibel »

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…

I use Talon with Cursorless for developing by voice. Obviously theres a learning curve but its actually fun and efficient.

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by sqs »

wolfeidau wrote: post #24

I have been using Cody in VSCode for a couple of months, and I am getting a ton of value out of it. The key things I love are: 1. It really knows how to summarise a code blocks, this can be helpful to review code in other projects, or provide a refresher to your own, it misses very little! 2. It is very smart when it comes to filling in gaps in log statements, error messages or code comments. 3. Copy and paste is mos…

Great to hear you're getting a ton of value out of it!

On the other parts you mentioned:

Overly positive English prose in Markdown is probably a function of the underlying LLM in use (Claude/GPT-4, plus experimental support for others). I guess the risk is that we overcorrect too far and suddenly the Markdown suggestions are off-putting. If you have any specific examples you'd feel comfortable posting to https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/discussions/358, that would be helpful.

On inline suggestions (autocomplete), we are under much tighter latency constraints than for chat or commands, so the context used for autocomplete is lighter right now. This is a huge area of effort for us, and we're watching completion acceptance rate really closely. We are making autocomplete use embeddings for context in more cases, and @beyang is adding a fast local context search path as well.

On the VS Code extension APIs used, yes, there are some new proposed APIs that are not yet freely available to extensions that will help. For now, the new `Cody: Fixup` command is much smoother UX than the inline comment `+` icon then typing `/fix whatever`—give that a try and let us know if that is better.

Thanks!

Re: Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase

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Post by thurn »

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.
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