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

Sick Picks

• Kevin: Lapse.com

Shameless Plugs

• Kevin: Codeium.com

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