SQsqs·Aug 28, 2023
Awesome. The repository is at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
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11 sourcesSorry. You don't need to pay for embeddings. What did not work for you? If the desktop app is where you ran into trouble, you can start with the editor extension (see https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody#readme) and just sign in via Sourcegraph.com instead of your local desktop app.
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseGreat to hear you're getting a ton of value out of it!
On the other parts you mentioned:
Overly positive English prose in Markdown is probably a function of the underlying LLM in use (Claude/GPT-4, plus experimental support for others). I guess the risk is that we overcorrect too far and suddenly the Markdown suggestions are off-putting. If you have any specific examples you'd feel comfortable posting to https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/discussions/358, that would be helpful.
On inline suggestions (autocomplete), we are under much tighter latency constraints than for chat or commands, so the context used for autocomplete is lighter right now. This is a huge area of effort for us, and we're watching completion acceptance rate really closely. We are making autocomplete use embeddings for context in more cases, and @beyang is adding a fas
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t local context search path as well.
On the VS Code extension APIs used, yes, there are some new proposed APIs that are not yet freely available to extensions that will help. For now, the new `Cody: Fixup` command is much smoother UX than the inline comment `+` icon then typing `/fix whatever`—give that a try and let us know if that is better.
Thanks!
It's something we'd like to add (and you can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody), but in beta we're still focused on making it really lovable on the most popular config path rather than exploding the number of possible ways people could configure Cody. We do support "bring your own LLM account" for customers using Cody for all their devs, but that hasn't yet made its way to client-side config in the editor extension.
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseYes, it will. And if you have specific things in mind you want to ask it (or kinds of code you want it to generate for you), we always love to hear that kind of stuff (in a discussion topic at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody or on our Discord).
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseWe've got some experimental work to support that. Not merged yet, but you can follow https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody. I've been polling Twitter (https://twitter.com/sqs/status/1675433337354330113) to see how much people actually are using self-hosted LLMs for code completion already, and it seems like not much yet, but Code Llama with infill is a big advance that we're quite excited about.
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseThere's an (experimental) Cody CLI: https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/tree/main/cli. If you try it and like it, let us know over on that repo! (Or if by headless you just mean "editor extension only", just install the Cody VS Code extension and sign into Sourcegraph.com, and it'll work without the desktop app. The response quality will be slightly lower than if you have the desktop app, but we're working on that and it should be at parity soon.)
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseWe're working on rolling that all into the editor extension itself, so if you just have the Cody editor extension now, you'll see it getting better context. Can follow along at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody.
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseI’m sorry about that. Our code (https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody), which is open source (Apache 2), doesn’t do anything to move the cursor, so I have no idea how that would have happened. Would you be willing to try to repro that in an issue or give us some more info so we can look into it?
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseSorry for this bad experience. We are working on improving this (code/activity at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody). In particular, we’re making it so you can do this all from your editor more easily.
In Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebaseHi we are tracking Sublime requests here: https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/discussions/10
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