Building with AI: Kalan Chan on building Sourcegraph's Cody
AI enables software engineers to build tools that can help them write code faster and more accurately. Kalan Chan, Software engineer at Sourcegraph, joins Anton to discuss how Sourcegraph is building Cody, a coding assistant that lives in your IDE.
Kalan Chan works on Cody at https://x.com/Sourcegraph
00:00 - intro
02:00 - what is Cody
02:51 - Cody use cases
03:51 - integrating code search with an LLM
09:12 - figuring out relevance
10:47 - guardrails
12:25 - cody's prompt
14:48 - prompt structure
15:25 - evals
18:10 - human labeling tools
19:35 - catching regressions
21:56 - Cody's unique UI
27:40 - instruction retrieval
29:20 - simple over complex
30:00 - self hosted models
32:55 - experimentation
34:40 - advice to new builders in AI
Full transcript at https://studios.trychroma.com/kalan-o...