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I am curious how people are using Phind. I actually had a discussion with Phind itself recently, in which I said that in order to help me, it seems like it wou
by ttcbj 3y ago
I am curious how people are using Phind.
I actually had a discussion with Phind itself recently, in which I said that in order to help me, it seems like it would need to ingest my codebase so that it understands what I am talking about. Without knowing my various models, etc, I don't see how it could write anything but the most trivial functions.
It responded that, yes, it would need to ingest my codebase, but it couldn't.
It was fairly articulate and seemed to understand what I was saying.
So, how do people get value out of Phind? I just don't see how it can help with any case where your function takes or returns a non-trivial class as a parameter. And if can't do that, what is the point?
- rushingcreek 3y agoFounder here. We have a VS Code extension that automatically fetches context from your codebase.
- kruxigt 3y ago[dead]
- aatd86 3y agoSo if source available libraries are imported, they are also parsed by the AI? So if I create a GPT for my open-source library as a way to fund it, all these copilot etc. are going to compete with me? Just wondering because that would be a bummer to not have this avenue to fund open-source code.
- CGamesPlay 3y agoI am not related to Phind or any other AI company, but yes, this is definitely the case, and you should assume that they will be ingesting your code through regular web scrapes now (giving extremely general knowledge about your library) and through reading specifically the library source code soon (this is what you are asking about here). If you wanted to try this strategy, I would suggest that you do it by providing the model with a large database of high-quality examples specific to your library (so, perhaps the examples section of your website, plus snippets from open source projects that use the library). These will probably be the last to be specifically ingested by general coding models.
- tacone 3y agoWoah , didn't know that! Thanks for pointing out!
- taneq 3y agoThanks for releasing Phind-CodeLLaMA-34B-v2, it's been helping me get up to speed with node and web apps and so far it's been spot on. :) Super impressive work.
- pozol 3y agoDoes the plugin use the codebase code in the model itself for training, or does it stay locally? Just curious about the privacy.
- rushingcreek 3y agoWe won’t use your codebase for training. And there is an option you can toggle that disables data retention entirely.
- tacone 3y agoI am using Phind quite a lot. It's using it's own model along GPT 4 while still being free. It is also capable to perform searches, which lead me - forgive me founders - to abuse it quite a lot: whenever I am not finding a good answer from other search engines I turn up to Phind even for things totally unrelated to software development, and it usually goes very well. Sometimes I even ask it to summarize a post, or tell me what HN is talking about today. I am very happy with it and hope so much it gains traction!
- beautifulfreak 3y agoI've used it to interpret messages in the Mac console app. I wish it could explain what causes certain messages to appear over and over.