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

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