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728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium

In this supper club, Scott and Wes welcome Kevin Hou, Head of Product Engineering at Codeium, a blazing fast AI-powered code completion and chat tool for developers.

Show Notes
  • 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • 05:31 An introduction to Codeium.
  • 07:56 What information are you sending the AI to get such good completions?
  • Codeium compliance
  • 09:15 Codeium runs a 'Language Server'.
  • 11:15 Crawling dependency tree and abstract syntax tree.
  • 12:07 Using Codeium Live.
  • 12:34 How big of a codebase can you run this on?
  • 14:39 Sending select amounts of data to AI.
  • 16:06 Does Codeium maintain codebase preferences and styling (ie. snake case)?
  • 17:39 Will Codeium scan the dependency?
  • 19:23 AI UI, have we found the best format?
  • 21:55 Crazy ideas in tech.
  • 22:53 Additional AI UI inputs.
  • 24:14 How do you make an AI model?
  • 28:42 How does Codeium manage the product roadmap?
  • 32:09 Do AI models get worse over time? How does Codeium validate that it's not?
  • Open AI Evals
  • 35:39 How is Codeium THAT fast?
  • 36:49 What programming langauges does Codeium use?
  • 38:55 Codeium Playground.
  • Codeium Playground
  • 39:15 Caching as a performance improvement.
  • 39:58 What is the pipe between Codeium and editor?
  • 40:17 Codeium chat service.
  • 41:44 A WebSocket system allowing push and pull communication.
  • 43:13 Closed Beta for GPT 4.0.
  • 46:12 The dreaded closing quote bug.
  • 48:26 Sometimes bugs bug Wes.
  • 49:49 Supper Club Questions
  • 51:40 Perplexity.ai
  • 52:35 What editor does Kevin use?
  • 55:31 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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