Cody: the AI assistant that actually knows your codebase

I tried Cody across a couple of different codebases and was super pleased with the way that the context worked. It felt like it actually understood my projects moreso than any of the other assistants.

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Chapters:
00:00 Who is Cody?
00:41 Trying it on the Laravel framework
02:25 How do I add a scope?
04:52 Trying it on an obscure repo
06:41 Using Cody to fix our code
07:28 Code generation
08:55 Cody is GA, with a few rough edges

[codypchristian]

This was a fun video to watch as I’m a dev named Cody who heavily uses laravel 😂 I’ll have to give this new tool a try now.

[stephenmiller]

Thanks Aaron! You know, the adage "RTFM" goes a long way...which I rarely EVER do! I started using Cody last week and while my opinion of all of the AI coding assistante out there, Cody seems to be the best. I just wish I could get it to "learn AND REMEMBER" as opposed to simply learning for the one session from the editor's context (who konws, I haven't got that far in the FM to know if its possible!) But, just by watching this video, I learned several things that have already helped me!!

[rampandey]

Signed up for the free trial will definitely become a customer. Thanks for making this video!

[Radiosabines]

Oh my god, it's fantastic. for the fresh dev who i'am, that helps a lot with the code... ex of a question : " how i create a select and use the country_ts table for the and u got it. -> We live in modern times Thank you master !

[ElrondMcBong]

in free version you can only use Claude 2.0. The others are for 'Pro' only.

[ahmad-murery]

Just today I watched a video by Jesse from CodeStackr about Cody, it looks amazing.
I'll try it and see if it can understand the codebase of my own framework because I don't seem to do so anymore 🤦‍♂😁
Thanks Aaron!

[hans-joergwahmkow]

I've been using Cody in VS Code now for a couple of days. I mainly program with PHP. Autocomplete is absolutely great - Cody even recognised my coding style and makes suggestions accordingly. It even gives me suggestions on what my next line of code might be. And this is surprisingly intelligent. I just wrote a small function and had 3 lines in there. Cody suggested the 4th line exactly like I had it in my mind. I was stunned. This is game changer for me. I will definetly go for the Pro version.

[wobsoriano]

I haven't watched the complete video yet, but what's the difference between Cody and Copilot + @workspace agent?

[alkadoHs]

This was the hidden coplilot alternative i didn't discovered, what the amazing tool 🤔

[BadgerSoft]

I have been using this for a few months, I gave a understanding of the language but can not program. Cody is extremely intuitive, I refuse to use gpt at all and prefer the default. Gpt trys to chat and produce a ton of extra docs. I use it for scripting in blender, I can get it to do complicated tasks Cody will write multiple scripts if needed, then explain any connections and or folders the files should be in, what objects to attack it to. And complicated like camera follows plane, ever 20 blender units the plane changes single frame on its material, which is a sequence of images. It dose crazy complicated

[OtterSwims]

Have you tried codeium? It's also pretty good

[ivanbarta]

Jetbrains AI Assistant has just been released and I was wondering how it differs from ChatGPT. Now it looks like the comparison won't be easy 😉

[campionpesate]

I can't make this thing aware of my entire code, I paste the github URL into "Codebase" and it stops working. If I leave it blank it works, but then it's clueless of the entire codebase and can only work with snippets

[ryanb]

Welp I signed up and installed it into PHP Storm before I even got to the end of your video. And yeah, it seems to just hang at a prompt so idk whats going on with it but I am going to chalk it up to the integration not being fully fleshed out and hope it works soon.

[Alice]

I love your interviews with those kids "recess therapy"

[MauriceKindermann]

I just want to know more about BladePortal, I read the docs (lol), it kind if sounds like insertBefore() or appendChild()? Or maybe defining some new inner html? I'd love to see an example, and how it's different to livewire. I assume you wrote it to avoid writing JavaScript and handle directly in PHP?

[spectr__]

I'm testing it, but it does not read my codebase. Only a few files, and it reduces context randomly on each message.

[winter-survivor]

Me and my colegues are not allowed to use any sort of AI on the company's private repos. And I kind of agree with them. Imagine employees leaking proprietary code "all over the place" (by training third party AI Assistants naively).
Any thoughts on privacy matters?

[HomeroBaroni]

Hey Aaron, thank you for this content. I just bought a Pro plan and I can´t find the right way to make Cody interact with my remote codebase (it's hosted on VPS hostgator server and I'm actually working with SSH remote connection in VSCodium). My site is wordpress and I need to extend a plugin functionality. Is it possible to make Cody know about my entire code, including file, and folders structure?

[cringeberry]

I see you got 251 lines from 21 files in context as codebase. Can't do same in my case, it's always show up only one current file in context.