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
Sick Picks
- Kevin: Lapse.com
Shameless Plugs
- Kevin: Codeium.com
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