bloop VS feedback

https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop Is fully open source and has full text + regex search built on tantivy fyi

Thanks! Bloop really helped with the documentation! they index your code base and uses RAG locally to talk against it. It works shockingly well.

In this blog post, I’ll be comparing 3 distinct AI-first code search tools I recently came across: Cody (developed by late-stage startup, Sourcegraph), SeaGOAT (an open-source project that was trending on HN last week), and Bloop (an early-stage YC startup). I’ll be evaluating them along the dimensions of user-friendliness as well as their accuracy.

If you're confused about any of the code snippets above, you can check out bloop.ai and phind.com (along with its VSCode extension) to answer any of your questions about the repository, noting that both have free plans.

COMPANY: bloop (https://bloop.ai)

bloop (YC S21) | Rust AI Engineer | Onsite | London, UK

We're a YC + tier-1 VC backed startup, working on a AI chat assistant for software developers that can answer questions about any large codebase.

About you: you hack around with GPT on the weekend, maybe you even fine-tune some of these new open source models. But you're also a solid programmer, capable of not just prototyping a nice demo but also shipping performant code that can scale. You're probably quite good at what you do, maybe you were top of your class, or maybe you rose the ranks to your comfortable management role, but yearn for the days of writing code, redbull and deploying on a Friday.

We're a small team, looking for one individual to join us in London, in-person at least 3 days per week.

Please reach out to me at join [at] bloop [dot] ai with "HN AI Engineer" in the subject line and a note about why this is exciting and a link to your portfolio or linkedin/resume.

P.S. Our stack is Rust, so it's likely the role will go to a candidate with Rust experience but if you think you have something to offer that compensates for lack of Rust we should chat anyway!

https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop

Bro let me turn your life inside out: https://bloop.ai

Another example is Bloop, it is a code search engine built on top of tantivy and qdrant.

Bloop is a developer assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your codebase (https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop)

I stated using gofakeit's "hackerphrase" for all commit messages.

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/commits/main/

hp | git commit -a -F -

hp is a golang binary that just spits out a hacker phrase. I have this aliased with the letter q for "quick" so I'm always checking in stuff with q return push done.

"zip_locations_zip_index" UNIQUE, btree (zip)

The following takes hours and hours to run:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/main/location/zip.go

But you end up with a nice way to get an approximate postgis geometry for any zip code in the USA. (For free.) Anyone know of a faster way?

My favorite part of this code is buffer := make([]byte, 1). By making the buffer just a single byte, I can look for "\n" so much easier than if I was reading in 1024 bytes or 2,048 bytes etc and then I have to find that \n in the middle.

I love this list. One thing I'll add is I like to avoid using S3 or google's cloud storage AT ALL until I have > 30 GB. i.e. with google free tier of their compute engine you get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors. So I make a fake bucket system using those free 30GB:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/tree/main/filestorag...

All I code I write is in bucket form, ready to flip a switch and use real buckets but 100% free up to that hard drive limit.

I just used a mutex here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/master/stats/me...

Multiple go routines will call this method at same time but:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/master/router/p...

Where I call it I start a new go routine so nothing is ever waiting on that mutex right?

So this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198563 prompted me to revisit the framework demo'ed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35033368

Just like reddit lets you go to what might be a 404 page /r/anything-you-want and you can then create that subreddit, I added this feature to remoterenters so you can make /rr/anything-you-want and be the mod of that sub.

To get the ball rolling with some content I made these two AI based subs:

https://remoterenters.com/rr/amazing-ai-understanding/

https://remoterenters.com/rr/writing-prompts/

And my friend "not_a_t1000" bot helped me add some interesting content. My favorite one in "amazing-ai-understanding" is about the Steering Wheel! How can it know this subtle meaning! So impressed!

Feel free to create your own new subs or add to these. Everything is open source. You can follow along with the commits to the "go on rails" framework here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/

and the sample app here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/remoterenters/

if anyone wants to pay for the domain, I'll set up copies of this https://remoterenters.com/ for any topic you want. Trouble is hard to compete with:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews

https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing

https://www.reddit.com/r/business

for traffic and users.

paste an example search with zero results in code. Like I did:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/search?q=view&type=c...

but

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/search?q=views&type=...

does have results.

I'm not sure exactly what features to add next to this site https://remoterenters.com/ but the idea is to help people find a building where their rent is actually a good deal. Because yes, many people will never get a mortgage and buy a condo or house. And a16z has a plan to give renters equity in their building + make the experience of living there 10x better.