Codeium

Our organization is evaluating Codeium, and based on our feedbacks, they keep improving the product that we use. First of all: I, although normally interested in the general landscape of technologies and devx / productivity, IDGAF about the current AI hype, try to keep away from it, and generally speaking cannot care less at this stage. That said, Codeium for me (and many other colleagues) became like a kitchen utility: you turn it on, and it just works, speeds things up, and I don't have to understand all the physics / engineering behind it. By default it works with vim and vscode, I installed it and then forgot about it. Completes 1-5 lines worth of shellscript if/else branches, whole methods, etc. Also, xml, c++, python is not a problem. It's sometimes so accurate, I actually have to check if completion is coming from the LSP or Codeium. I contribute to 5-10 projects with different languages, and don't have the capacity to understand all of them. As an example, sometimes I have to git mergetool quite big patches with many conflicts. Codeium perfectly fixes pytest unit tests for me during the merge, and I don't even understand necessarily, what was broken after the merge/rebase. It offloads a lot of mental load and context switching, TBH. I understand that my use case is "fix /change a handful of most probably repetitive lines in a dynamically typed script", and won't expect it to write elaborate methods like fizzbuzz etc. It really feels like it's more of an ASSISTANT that helps me or sometimes pair programs with me