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Published · transcript-backedBeyang Liu: belief
14 Dec 2023 Latent Space The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
“We also had Han-Wen Nienhuys, who created Zoekt, which is, I think, heavily inspired by the Trigram index that powered Google's original code search and that we also now use at Sourcegraph.”
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- Beyang Liu
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- 14 Dec 2023
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…On your podcast, which you've had me on, you've interviewed a bunch of other code search developers, including the current developer of Kythe, right? No, we didn't have any Kythe people on, although we would love to if they're up for it. We had Kelly Norton, who built a similar system at Etsy, it's an open source project called Hound. We also had Han-Wen Nienhuys, who created Zoekt, which is, I think, heavily inspired by the Trigram index that powered Google's original code search and that we also now use at Sourcegraph. Yeah. So you teamed up with Quinn over 10 years ago to start Sourcegraph and you were indexing all code on the internet. And now you're in a perfect spot to create a code intelligence startup. Yeah, yeah.…
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