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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