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728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium
Feb 9, 2024
58:34
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Kevin Hou, Head of Product Engineering at Codeium, discusses their AI-powered code completion and chat tool for developers. Topics include Codeium's information sources for good completions, codebase preferences, managing the product roadmap, speed optimization, caching, and the integration of AI into IDEs. They also touch on the issues of bugs, balancing enterprise and free customers, the value of AI tools for everyday users, and the tool 'perplexity'.
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- Codeium offers fast autocomplete suggestions that predict what developers are thinking as they type, providing low-latency and user-focused workflow.
- Codeium incorporates a chat assistant that is codebase-aware, leveraging user actions and recent edits to provide relevant and contextual results.
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Overview of Codeium and AI Superpowers
Codeium is a tool that aims to maximize the benefits of AI superpowers in your code base and text editor. It offers a range of new tools that have emerged in the field of AI, specifically tailored for developers. By integrating AI into the developer experience, Codeium aims to enhance productivity and improve the quality of code. The company behind Codeium, X-A-Function, initially focused on ML inference workloads to optimize GPU utilization. However, when the boom of large language models (LLMs) arrived, they recognized the opportunity to leverage their infrastructure to provide a new product. Codeium aims to deliver a free and democratized AI-powered developer experience, providing the best possible tools and assistance to as many users as possible.
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