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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