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I've been trying to use Cody, but the user experience has been so bad that I've mostly given up. There is no clear instruction about how to add/remove repos, or
by yosito 3y ago
I've been trying to use Cody, but the user experience has been so bad that I've mostly given up. There is no clear instruction about how to add/remove repos, or how to get Cody to recognize the current repo you're in. And the UI seems poorly planned, with missing, hidden and inconsistent buttons. I spend more time figuring out how to get Cody to work than I save by using it. I think it has potential, but they seriously need to spend a sprint or two dogfooding and thinking about the UI/UX. An AI tool like this shouldn't be so damn hard to use.
- sqs 3y agoSorry for this bad experience. We are working on improving this (code/activity at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody). In particular, we’re making it so you can do this all from your editor more easily.
- thurn 3y agoI also went to try it out and gave up in frustration. Getting "embeddings" in particular seems critical to having it work well but also extraordinarily hard to try out, I'm not actually sure if you are required to pay sourcegraph money for that feature before you can use it or not.
- sqs 3y agoSorry. 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 https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody#readme) and just sign in via Sourcegraph.com instead of your local desktop app.