AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by csmajorfive » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

AI-Powered JavaScript Completions
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Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by brenden2 » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:08 PM UTC

So this is just code completion? What exactly makes it qualify as "artificial intelligence"? Did they throw some PyTorch or TensorFlow into the mix?

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by adamsmith » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

Adam 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 product, adjusted it to JavaScript’s nuances, and trained the model on 22 million open-source JavaScript files. We then spent months dogfooding, user testing, and applying advanced model filtering techniques to ensure the UX was ready for everyone to enjoy.

We think the end-result will help you have more fun writing JavaScript, while also helping you ship software faster. We can’t wait to get feedback from you to help us improve our JavaScript completions from here! We'll be online to answer your questions here today as well.

Since a lot of folks ask, Kite continues to work 100% locally and Kite for JavaScript is free. We plan to release support for more languages later this year, and are taking requests at kite.com/letmeknow. Thanks!

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by r29vzg2 » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

I’m glad this works locally. I remember Kite for Python, one of the reasons we couldn’t use it was because it sent the code to a remote server. Glad to see this.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by arkitaip » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

brenden2 wrote: post #2

So this is just code completion? What exactly makes it qualify as "artificial intelligence"? Did they throw some PyTorch or TensorFlow into the mix?

> We’ve trained a new deep learning model on 22 million open-source JavaScript files to ensure Kite works with your favorite libraries and frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, and Node.js.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by chris_engel » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:18 PM UTC

So, when this runs completely local, WHY do I have to pay monthly? Why can't it be bought?

And it costs more than my whole IDE (IntelliJ complete license for _everything_) as well...

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by daveed » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

chris_engel wrote: post #6

So, when this runs completely local, WHY do I have to pay monthly? Why can't it be bought? And it costs more than my whole IDE (IntelliJ complete license for _everything_) as well...

I'm guessing if they gave you an all-in price you wouldn't want to pay what they ask anyway.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by enitihas » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

How 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?

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by _Microft » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

chris_engel wrote: post #6

So, when this runs completely local, WHY do I have to pay monthly? Why can't it be bought? And it costs more than my whole IDE (IntelliJ complete license for _everything_) as well...

It will be not for sale because they would not want to sell it.

Subscriptions are a tool that can both extract more money from customers and also increase the customer base by reducing the upfront cost.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by lukevp » Tue, May 12, 2020, 3:31 PM UTC

adamsmith wrote: post #3

Adam 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?