github.com
And in the spirit of Show HN, we have a playground version for anyone to try the tech in the browser without any installation (https://www.codeium.com/playground)! We also made the vim client open source and are open to contributions.
I am analyzing their binary in a sandbox as I write this.
I was excited when I installed it a couple of hours ago. But suddenly my firewall notifications start piling up.
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.
Basically the go binary on your machine is everything the tool needs. But before giving output it dials home.
They should relase the current model and sell later updated models for a fee , that would be a good business idea.
> How do you plan to make money?
> Fair question whenever anything is billed as free forever, especially when there are clear infrastructure serving costs as we do! To be clear, this free forever deal is in order to provide some special benefit to early adopters like yourself who have supported Codeium from the beginning. We are actively working on a bunch of exciting additional features that we may consider as part of a paid Pro subscription, but we are committed to offering state-of-the-art code completion forever for free to you and as cheaply as possible to every developer at large.
This is to avoid clashing with nvim-cmp's tab configuration. copilot plugin uses an alt-l combination to accept the suggestion for example
I think that parent’s tone is way too combative. But the “Pricing” page on your website[1] only says that the service is free for early users.
One Plan
It's pretty simple. Early users get free forever access to Codeium.
This isn't disclosed on the linked page, nor is a privacy policy linked.
Show HN: Codeium – a free, fast AI codegen extension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885676 - Dec 2022 (39 comments)
Anything else you care to be wrong about?
It's not my lawsuit :-)
https://twitter.com/JOSourcing/status/1588296106554716160?s=...
I won't answer.
It's a pattern.
I've never read an FAQ that avoids it's own questions this much. They say "permissive licenses", they could've just listed what licenses were deemed acceptable by their scraper. Licenses like WTFPL, MIT-0 or CC0 are perfectly usable for ML because they require nothing in exchange for the code. There are projects out there using these licenses, though most will require attribution at the very least.
Microsoft went full "licenses don't apply to machine learning, sue us", just like most AI companies when it comes to things like copyright, but I don't think claiming to care about licenses and then refusing to name any permissable licenses for your model is much better. At least MS doesn't lie about their intentions.
Video explainer: https://youtu.be/dZMGH_3UdSE
You're actively trying to doxx people?
Do you have any idea what the words you're using even mean??
If you found that, you'll find all sorts of private information in there.
This post should be taken down.
The project is a security risk.
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.
I hope you and your team succeeds in creating a competitor in this space, it's going to get really exciting.
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?
'Show HN' is for things that can be tried and that's about it. It has different criteria (and inputs) from things like 'Launch HN'.
A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. The community is comfortable with work that's at an early stage.