Hi HN! At Refact, we're building an open-source AI Code assistant with fine-tuning focused on providing the enjoyable coding experience without privacy concerns.
Why? When you look at AI code tools like Copilot, you'll notice that they often provide generic coding suggestions because the models were not trained on your codebase. They also only work in the cloud, so in order to get a code suggestion, you need to send your code to the cloud provider.
One of the solutions for this is self-hosted fine-tuning on codebase, but the companies who provide this feature currently prioritize it for enterprise making it difficult for individual devs to use it.
We want to change that by open-sourcing fine-tuning for everyone, not just enterprise customers.
Currently with Refact you can self-host Refact models and the best open-source LLMs (like StarCoder, LLama2, WizardLM) and use it for code suggestions and chat.
We would love to hear your ideas and feedback on your current experience with AI code assistants and what is currently missing!
