Byung Liu: Sourcegraph's Cody is the only AI fetching full codebase context
Byung Liu · Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking · Jun 2, 2023 · at 16:36
Byung Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, compares Cody's context retrieval capabilities against competing AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot.
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“As far as I know, Cody is, is the only AI enabled editor assistant or coding tool today that, that fetches context as kind of like as broadly as we do.”
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