I Tried Every AI Coding Assistant for Neovim

[@devopstoolbox]

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[@c_kemper]

I spent time "pair programming" with chatGPT and was pleasantly surprised. You get to concentrate on the hard things whilst GPT handles 90% of the boilerplate... oh and it is also great for learning Rust APIs...

[@devopstoolbox]

Exactly my experience!

[@laughingvampire7555]

and is also great to introduce bugs

[@c_kemper]

@@laughingvampire7555 if you let it… I tend to “test” my code…

[@c_kemper]

@@laughingvampire7555 yeah, if you blindly trust and don’t test properly…

[@romangeneral23]

​@@laughingvampire7555 happened to me. Soo many bugs that it was essier to write it myself and save time

[@praysonwilfreddaniel4775]

I love aider-chat. It is actually a co-programmer as it does git commit and understand the code base over single file.

[@Trozpent]

Thanks for putting the time into this. I'd never taken note of Codium before. Given my line of work, we have environments which are "off-line" where users need to code and work with large data but no internet access. Just reading how Codium enterprise offers on-prem installs could be really useful in situations like this, hopefully removing the faff needed to setup ollama.

[@devopstoolbox]

Ollama sounds like a great option given the context

[@tc4v]

Nice comparison! Codeium is great, the "side kick" you talk about is exactly what I want, and I am very happy with it after about six months of use. I prefer the Vim plugin (works perfectly on nvim), because it uses ghost text by default and feel a little better to me.

[@devopstoolbox]

Ohh I never even bothered to give the vim one a go. That’s great I’ll look into it thank you!

[@kieranosgood3297]

Noticed the 1password prompt pop up as you installed the plugin - feels like a good video could going over some of the details of its CLI use if you use it extensively

[@yonahcitron226]

LOVE your content. Was literally looking for this today. Keep it up!

[@parkersettle460]

Anything for neocon where you can give the model project/ file context? Multiple contexts

[@samarnagar9699]

i installed cody yesterday its an fun plugin all as i can see al ai make small suggetions like completing functions and put the values those save me alot of time by killing the most predectabke code like

[@MarcelMaier-zz4xo]

in my opinion you missed one crucial point for codeium. it kind of learns and adopt to the style you wrote your code. after using it a bit longer it really often come up with something i just wanted to write myself. for example it uses the tailwind classes i often use for layouts without me telling the ai what i wanted. it feels more like an assistant that try’s to mimic myself. the downside might be that if you as a dev suck.. the ai will learn to suck as well. but this is the reason i primarily use codeium. rest oft the video was very informative and i enjoyed watching ! keep going :)

[@macmanuelodumeru3708]

Awesome video. Have you tried out Sourcegraph's cody? How do you do this Terminal overlaying transparently over your video? Can you do a video on it or maybe a short? Would be mu h appreciated. Thank you

[@devopstoolbox]

Hi! Didn't try cody, does it come with an integration for neovim? Would love to try if it does. Re a video covering edit styles this kind of out of the scope of this channel 😉 lot's of other editing channels. I personally use final cut which I then just layer both videos on top of each other...

[@robinskills]

@@devopstoolbox Yes Cody does have a NeoVim extension and it can also be used for free.

[@devopstoolbox]

@@robinskills I need to give it a go! Did you try it?

[@robinskills]

@@devopstoolbox I use it in VSCode and PyCharm. Recently I tried the Neovim' s extension as well and, at least in my case, it doesn't disappoints.

[@Redyf]

Wow, your tmux line is pretty cool. Can you share the dotfiles?

[@devopstoolbox]

Of course: dotfiles.omerxx.com Also checkout the recent video I made about Tmux from scratch where I configure it

[@Quephara]

Great video mate, 3k+ views. Grow brother, grow!

[@devopstoolbox]

😅🙏🏽

[@arnaupontvilchez8044]

As always, great content, thanks for sharing! 🔥

[@xtnctr]

Suberb readability exhibited by fonts leveraged in mark 45"..mind sharing its name?

[@devopstoolbox]

Jetbrains mono!

[@oelsardine9422]

Nice. This is 100% the video I needed. Thanks.

[@chrtravels]

Curious how it compares to cody

[@devopstoolbox]

@@chrtravels Tried it about a month after this video for a while and wasn’t happy with the results :(

[@DontKnowDontCare]

What about Gemini?

[@devopstoolbox]

I'm planning another, newer review. 6 month in our AI world is old history

[@samarthnagar3856]

What i would give to have an list if every plugin you use and there description

[@devopstoolbox]

dotfiles.omerxx.com! It’s all there 😉

[@StanislavStratiev]

I don't mean to be negative, I love your content. I can't help but notice that you are getting line by line suggestions from both codeium and copilot, whereas vscode copilot is known to pop these large paragraphs of whole classes with several functions that do a particular task. Do you know why that is? I have the feeling that it just doesn't work as well on nvim as it does on vscode. I would like to start using copilot but this seems like a problem. I am also rarely able to get multiline suggestions from codeium, which I tested out on my laptop in nvim. For example, when I tried the little fibonacci example with codeium, I wanted to see if I could cycle through several different implementations, maybe linear time or with memoization but it just provided one single suggestion and that was it.

[@devopstoolbox]

Great question and TBH I’m not entirely sure. It could be the fact that it didn’t have the chance to “get to know” my code base long enough. That’s why I’m perfectly fine with codeium doing the small adjustments, while I’m doing the coding. When I did get full functions and classes like in the coding game it wasn’t good enough. That said, if you give it enough instructions and don’t stop it it’ll keep going. Per codeium - someone else in the comments suggested I use the vim plugin rather than Neovim as this one comes with ghost code by default.

[@StanislavStratiev]

@@devopstoolbox Thanks so much for the quick response. I'll play around more with codium tomorrow. Great video, as always :]

[@ortani]

What's the name of the plug-in you are using to show that cmdline in the middle of the screen? Very intuitive. Ty

[@devopstoolbox]

Noice.nvim!

[@ortani]

@@devopstoolbox very useful. Ty

[@samarthnagar3856]

7:51 hiw did that happen did you changed some setting

[@devopstoolbox]

WDYM? How codeium pops for comments? It just does :)

[@samiralibabic]

CodeWhisperer not available for nvim😢

[@devopstoolbox]

True.. I was actually thinking of picking it up and creating a plugin but a little too busy for it ATM...

[@silakanveli]

Is there any copilot chat alternative for neovim?

[@devopstoolbox]

You mean something dedicated that’s not tpopes? Yes, there’s a lua version of copilot but I decided to go with the one I know I can trust :)

[@silakanveli]

Maybe chat gpt one will do it for now. Just enjoyed vscode copilot-chat. Maybe its coming to neovim too in future.

[@ayoubelmhamdi7920]

all of this doesn't have my preference UX design, asking gpt to change a part of the code and it gives me all chunks in a diff way. that is building in a version of vscode called cursor, diff between chunks is awesome and useful but i hat vscode, is so slow

[@Merlo-q1c]

i'm combining codeium vim and codeium nvim(because in nvim version does not have ghost suggestions, but codeium vim does so why not both?) haha

[@devopstoolbox]

I actually moved to the vim version bc I also like the ghost text completion, but I didn't get the idea in combining both..?

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

Codeium is really good

[@driden1987]

I'm still not a fan of the whole AI workflow and I rarely use to ask any questions or maybe come up with bash commands

[@devopstoolbox]

I get it. As you can see I’m testing the waters myself. But take something like codeium for a spin and see what it can do in a project you run. These small lines that it completes without you having to lose any energy and can keep the mental flow are a game changer. That’s the real benefit IMO

[@driden1987]

@@devopstoolbox Yeah will probably give it a shot! I'd love to be able to use it to scaffold code and do the mundane parts of software development, not sure I trust it with more complex stuff for the time being

[@theaveasso]

What is the plugins that focus the specific area of your code

[@elythh]

twilight

[@devopstoolbox]

github.com/folke/twilight.nvim

[@leiserfernandezgallo5033]

Codium (the service) has more features, is a shame they only expose them in the vscode addon.

[@devopstoolbox]

It does! Anything in particular that you would recommend?

[@leiserfernandezgallo5033]

@@devopstoolbox I will love to see something like Bryley/neoai.nvim interacting with codeium, as that kind of interface can be at times more useful than completions 'cause it's more intentional.

[@kinggrey2511]

Great content but what about tabnine

[@devopstoolbox]

Definitely there, but I think tabnine is more geared towards large organizations and specializes at the legal aspect of using a model that scans a large codebase with IP. That said, I'll see if it can be covered in its own vid :)

[@kinggrey2511]

@@devopstoolbox thank you so much I have been using lazyvim as my main and iam a windows user so learning how to integrate tabnine would be amazing for the productivity that being said I am still new and broke if i wasn't I would definitely go for copilot

[@barni_7762]

What command line plugin is that?

[@devopstoolbox]

If you’re asking about my prompt, this is starship (there’s a dedicated video in the channel)

[@barni_7762]

Thanks for your reply. I meant the one inside neovim, where you typed ChatGPT and ChatGPTActAs kn the beginning of the video.

[@devopstoolbox]

@@barni_7762 ah, github.com/folke/noice.nvim

[@michaelns9887]

try Tabby