728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium

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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 Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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