I'm Varun from the Codeium team. After support for VSCode, Jetbrains, Jupyter, and Colab, we are super excited to bring free AI-powered code autocomplete to Vim and Neovim.<p>And in the spirit of Show HN, we have a playground version for anyone to try the tech in the browser without any installation (<a href="https://www.codeium.com/playground" rel="nofollow">https://www.codeium.com/playground</a>)! We also made the vim client open source and are open to contributions.
Be careful of this project.<p>I am analyzing their binary in a sandbox as I write this.<p>I was excited when I installed it a couple of hours ago. But suddenly my firewall notifications start piling up.<p>As soon as you install it, it downloads a large binary that includes the trained models and starts a web server on your computer. Then it phones home what they call "meta data", it keeps sending heart beat even if you opt out.<p>Basically the go binary on your machine is everything the tool needs. But before giving output it dials home.
Which languages do you support? My main work is in Elixir, where Copilot is incredibly weak. It’s completely understandable that less training data for less popular languages means worse performance, but it’d be interesting to hear whether you’re trying to alleviate that limitation for more niche languages somehow.
Trying this out on neovim. Is there a way to use another key combination to accept the auto completion instead of a Tab?<p>This is to avoid clashing with nvim-cmp's tab configuration. copilot plugin uses an alt-l combination to accept the suggestion for example
How does this work? Does it ship a model to me and do it all locally? I love Copilot (one of my favourite subscriptions) but I can't use it on a plane. Would love to do this and just toggle between the two.
Recent and related:<p><i>Show HN: Codeium – a free, fast AI codegen extension</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885676" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885676</a> - Dec 2022 (39 comments)
Is there a free copilot alternative which can utilize SalesForce CodeGen model ? I looking to standup a service in my firm provide code generation capabilities.
Is this OK? Autocomplete suggests the text with what appears to be someone's username.<p><a href="https://freeimage.host/i/HaLPXDB" rel="nofollow">https://freeimage.host/i/HaLPXDB</a>
Not to be confused with Codium [1], a completely FOSS, telemetry-free build of VS Code<p><a href="https://vscodium.com/" rel="nofollow">https://vscodium.com/</a>
The negative comments in this thread are coming from a mix of critics and assholes.<p>The difference between a critic and an asshole is whether they care about your success. You can safely ignore the assholes; critics provide the same information, but package it better.<p>I hope you and your team succeeds in creating a competitor in this space, it's going to get really exciting.
I think it is okay to still be figuring out the pricing and other details while you build this out, even if it is at a Show HN stage. Perhaps, I would not recommend using this on your sensitive projects just yet.<p>Given that most of the responses are about "what is the trick?", "how is it funded", etc., it seems like HN does not feel the same? If they were to respond with some random VC as the source of funding, would it suddenly be less nefarious (even though the incentives are probably worse)? What are the other implied obligations of doing a Show HN?