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Kite — Write JavaScript faster using deep learning
Kite released JavaScript completions today featuring Multi-Line Completions for boilerplate code. It’s powered by a deep learning model trained on over 22 million .js files. Kite is free and works with the top IDEs.
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@asmith Been waiting for this!! :D on your site it says "Kite runs locally.
Your code is private." Can you expand on this? No data is transmitted to a remote server?
@jasonbarry Hi Jason, thanks for the question.
We never send your code or artifacts resembling it to a remote server.
We do send usage stats (which you can opt out of) and check for updates periodically. We have a Privacy page that outlines this in more detail here: https://www.kite.com/privacy/.
This is super interesting. The project needs to be voted much higher than it is currently.
Question - how often and does your snippet database update and how do you get the data to update it? You don't use user code, but do you have other methods maybe? (Crawling github for example)
This can solve the long term problem of snippets in IDEs - they don't update and you need to remember the shortkeys to use them, nice.
@pinter69 Hi Peter, good question. We update our training data regularly using code from high-quality open-source projects on Github. For our JavaScript model, we were able to source over 22 million JavaScript code files for model training.
Besides that, Kite also indexes your code once it is installed so that it can provide localized completions based on your code base, like classes and variables that you've uniquely defined yourself.
Kite is a very useful tool, specially for beginners. It works great with a tablet next to you.
Awesome thingy! What is the difference between Kite and https://www.tabnine.com/ which supports all languages?
It sounds absolutely amazing! I haven't coded in a while, but next time I do, I will give kite a trie
Really helpfull app. It would be so cool If you shared with us the process of launching and developing of the product because It looks very useful and interesting. Maybe such articles already exist?
@valerie_markgraf Our blog post announcing JavaScript completions can be found here: https://www.kite.com/blog/produc...
Does the autocomplete continuously scan the written code to improve accuracy over time on a given project? and does this data then get shared back into the global dataset?
@warren_day Kite uses nearby code to predict completions, but does not store that data to learn about a project over time.
Since Kite works 100% locally, we never send your code or artifacts resembling it to a remote server. We do send usage stats (which you can opt out of) and check for updates periodically. We have a Privacy page that outlines this in more detail here: https://www.kite.com/privacy/.
Tried my hands on it recently. Have loved it till now. I am going to make my developers use it in our next project and see how it works out.
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