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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
“I think Copilot uses some variant of Codex. They're kind of cagey about it. I don't think they've like officially announced what model they use.”
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- 14 Dec 2023
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…You had a Copilot versus Cody blog post, and I think it really shows the context improvement. So you had two examples that stuck with me. One was, what does this application do? And the Copilot answer was like, oh, it uses JavaScript and NPM and this. And it's like, but that's not what it does. You know, that's what it's built with. Versus Cody was like, oh, these are like the major functions. And like, these are the functionalities and things like that. And then the other one was, how do I start this up? And Copilot just said NPM start, even though there was like no start command in the package JSON, but you know, most collapse, right? Most projects use NPM start. So maybe this does too. How do you think about open source models? Because Copilot has their own private thing. And I think you guys use Starcoder, if I remember right. Yeah, that's correct. I think Copilot uses some variant of Codex. They're kind of cagey about it. I don't think they've like officially announced what model they use. And I think they use a range of models based on what you're doing. Yeah.…
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