Re:Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
by menzoic on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:26AM
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It seems you're doing the opposite of "missing the forest for the trees". You see the forest (the app) but you're not seeing the individual trees.
The answer to why companies don't have one interface with GPT is that they would still need to invest time and money into building the application that uses GPT. Checkout the bloop source code to get an idea of what's needed https://github.com/bloopAI/bloop there are also many complex things to deal with. You can't just shove an entire codebase into GPT-4, it has limited ability to track context. The codebase needs to be indexed and stored in a way that sematic search can be done on it very quickly. Every app has their own unique challenges towards getting the data into GPT and making it fast.
TL;DR companies are buying apps that use GPT-4 API, not just access to GPT-4. They'd rather buy the apps instead of building and maintaining them.
The answer to why companies don't have one interface with GPT is that they would still need to invest time and money into building the application that uses GPT. Checkout the bloop source code to get an idea of what's needed https://github.com/bloopAI/bloop there are also many complex things to deal with. You can't just shove an entire codebase into GPT-4, it has limited ability to track context. The codebase needs to be indexed and stored in a way that sematic search can be done on it very quickly. Every app has their own unique challenges towards getting the data into GPT and making it fast.
TL;DR companies are buying apps that use GPT-4 API, not just access to GPT-4. They'd rather buy the apps instead of building and maintaining them.