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424 points kaycebasques | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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sqs ◴[20 Aug 24 10:28 UTC] No.41298641[source]▶
Sourcegraph CEO here. We made our main internal codebase (for our code search product) private. We did this to focus. It added a lot of extra work and risk to have stuff be open source and public. We gotta stay focused on building a great code search/intelligence product for our customers.

That's what ultimately lets us still do plenty of things for devs and the OSS community:

(1) Our super popular public code search is at https://sourcegraph.com/search, which is the same product customers use internally on their own codebases. We spend millions of dollars annually on this public instance with almost 1M OSS repositories to help out everyone using OSS (and we love when they like it so much they bring it into their company :-).

(2) We also have still have a ton of open-source code, like https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/cody (our code AI tool).

BTW, if any founders out there are wondering whether they should make their own code open-source or public, happy to chat! Email in profile. I think it could make sense for a lot of companies, but more so for infrastructure products or client tools, not so much for full server-side end-user applications.

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BaculumMeumEst ◴[20 Aug 24 15:08 UTC] No.41300771[source]▶
This thread reminded me to finally try Cody, I've been bouncing on and off Copilot for a few months. I wish I knew how good this was sooner, and I had no idea there was a generous free tier.
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1. wesleyyue ◴[20 Aug 24 15:53 UTC] No.41301154[source]▶
If you're open to trying new AI coding assistants, would love if you can give https://double.bot a try! (note: I'm one of the creators) The main philosophical differences is that we are more expensive and are trying to build the best copilot with the technology possible at any given time. For example, we serve a larger, more accurate, and more modern autocomplete model, but it does cost more to serve. We also do a lot of somewhat novel work in getting the details right, like improving the autocomplete model to never screw up closing brackets, and always auto-close them as if you typed them.