728: AI Superpowers with Kevin Hou and Codeium

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. In this Friday Separ Club, we're going to be talking to Kevin Howe of Codium,
0:08.0	and we're going to be talking all about AI superpowers in your code base, in your text editor, all of the cool type of new tools
0:16.9	that have arrived on our doorstep.
0:19.6	And just in general, how we can get the most out of these tools and a little bit about how they work.
0:25.2	So Kevin, how is it going?
0:29.8	You want to maybe give a quick introduction to who you are and what you do and how you ended up at Codium?
0:35.0	Sure. Yeah, thanks for having me Scott, Wes. You're
0:38.1	big fan of the podcast, so it's cool to be featured. Like Scott said, my name's Kevin. I am from the Bay Area, been a
0:45.8	builder, all my life, engineer, born and raised. I've kind of been in the startup world, or was exposed to the
0:51.5	startup world very on.
0:53.0	I got my computer science degree and naturally like any other Bay Area native kind of returned back to my roots.
1:00.0	And I actually started my career in the self-driving car industry.
1:04.4	So I was working on a company called Nuro.
1:06.1	Yeah, we were doing package delivery.
1:08.6	So kind of not quite side rock robots,
1:10.7	but small smart car-ish sized robots and there I was building
1:16.3	developer tools so you know you might think with with AV a lot of it comes down to
1:20.9	kind of the decision-making the cars intelligence all that sort of thing but what I found very interesting
1:26.7	was the tooling and the visualization specifically that went into
1:31.6	How do we make this car drive and so I was spending a lot of
1:34.3	time thinking about just kind of what autonomy engineers wanted what could we how to
1:40.1	understand what the car was thinking and and why it was making the decisions it was making.
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