one size does not fit them all, and such tools are quite straightforward to develop. I even created one myself: https://npmjs.com/genaicode, I started with CLI tool, but eventually learned that such UX is not good (even interactive CLI), and I created a web UI.

where the problems start: cost of inference vs quality, latency, multi modality (vision + imagen), ai service provider issues (morning hours in US time zones = poor quality results)

the best part is being able to adjust it to my work style

Codebuff is the easiest to use of all these, because you just chat, and it finds all the right files to edit. There's no clicking and you don't have to confirm edits.

It is also a true agent. It can run terminal commands to aid the request. For one request it could: 1. Write a unit test 2. Run the test 3. Edit code to fix the error 4. Run it again and see it pass

If you try out Codebuff, I think you'll see why it's unique!

Can codebuff handle larger files (6,000 loc) and find the right classes/functions in that code, or if it finds the file with the necessary info does it load the entire file in?

I think it would handle the giant file, but it would definitely pull the whole thing into context.

We are doing some tricks so it should be able to edit the file without rewriting it, but occasionally that fails and we fallback to rewriting it all, which may time out on such a file.

first time?

Heh, this is an underrated comment.

Fundamentally, I think codegen a pretty new space and lots of people are jumping in because they see the promise. Remains to be seen what the consolidation looks like. With the rate of advancement in LLMs and codegen in particular, I wouldn't be surprised to see even more tools than we do now...

And they all converging towards one use case, and targeting one consumer base. It's still unclear for consumers, at least based on this thread what differetiate them.

:KEKW:

We also have ed, the standard Unix text editor.

A tool like this is probably a great way to get some VC money.

None of them are owned by the creator of Codebuff. Why not create something to replace or be at the same level as those? Also, who is "we"? I don't use or like none of these.