Trying something new, going to pin this thread as a place for beginners to ask what may or may not be stupid questions, to encourage both the asking and answering.

Depending on activity level I’ll either make a new one once in awhile or I’ll just leave this one up forever to be a place to learn and ask.

When asking a question, try to make it clear what your current knowledge level is and where you may have gaps, should help people provide more useful concise answers!

  • lynx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Question: What is the best self hosted coding assistant?

    The (only) project i found, that does what i want:

    It works ok for the most part. The problem i have with it is that inline completion is more annoying then helpful, because the AI only sees the last few lines that you wrote and therefore does not know the larger context of the project.

    I also found this project, it looks promising. Has anyone tested it? Can you separate the server from the client?

    Are there other projects that integrate well into an IDE?

      • lynx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it and the diff view is very good. The setup was not really easy for my local models, but after i set it up, it was really fast. The biggest problem with the tool is that the open source models are not that good, i tried if it could fix a bug in my code and it was only able to make it worse. On a more positive note, you at least do not need to copy all text over to another window and it is great for generating boilerplate code nearly flawlessly every time.

        • noneabove1182@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah definitely need to still understand the open source limits, they’re getting pretty dam good at generating code but their comprehension isn’t quite there, I think the ideal is eventually having 2 models, one that determines the problem and what the solution would be, and another that generates the code, so that things like “fix this bug” or more vague questions like “how do I start writing this app” would be more successful