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Benefits of Using Code Completion Tools On Premises

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, the use of code completion tools has become essential for enhancing productivity and code quality. As developers seek efficient solutions to streamline their coding process, the adoption of on-premises code completion tools is gaining momentum.

My daughter is in Year 11 of High School and is studying Python.

Now back when I went to school, Python wasn't being taught - it was all in on C, Cobol, Assembler, Visual Basic - Python wasn't on the menu.

To help her on her school assignment, I sought the help of a coding assistant. I might not know the python syntax for reading in a file, and searching it line by line for characters that make up the word "monkey" - which incidently was her high school assignment, but with a coding assistant - I can certainly describe a for loop and basic search algorithm - and presto - the code is generated.

Your software developers are probably one of your AI early adopters, and these tools have become incredibly powerful.

Microsoft Copilot, Codieum & CodeLlama

Code completion tools like these play a pivotal role in assisting developers by providing real-time suggestions, detecting errors, and enhancing coding efficiency. The shift towards on-premises solutions for integrating with local source code repositories and enterprise development tools signifies a growing need for data security, customization, and performance optimization in software development environments.

Enhanced Security and Data Privacy

On-premises solutions offer a heightened level of security by allowing organizations to keep sensitive code and data within their controlled environment. This ensures better data privacy, compliance with regulations, and minimizes the risk of data breaches.

Customization and Integration

You are the industry experts in what you do, and have more relevant, higher quality code in your private repository than can be found publicly.

One of the key advantages of on-premises code completion tools is the ability to tailor integrations with local source code repositories and enterprise tools.

Both Codeium, and Meta's CodeLlama can be combined with powerful RAG techniques to personalize your models. This customization empowers developers to adapt the tool to your specific coding practices, tool chains, API's and frequently used micro-services specific to your environment.

Codeium is especially flexible - in that it doesn't only work with GitHub - anyone using other source code repositories out there? GitLab anyone?

Don't compromise your IP

One of the intellectual property risks in software development, is what happens if the model being used, inadvertently introduces downstream licensing consequences (eg. injects code with downstream GPL licensing implications).

These 3 different toolsets - take very different approaches:

• CodeLlama - you aren't getting any guarantees - it's open source!
• Microsoft - will try to scrub generated code for any offending IP infringment
• Codeium - this organization has scrubbed offending IP from it's source data sets to ensure there's no chance of this happening. Quality of training data matters.

Customization and Integration Capabilities

Meta's CodeLlama is free, but as powerful as it ease - ease of use matters & its probably not integrated into the IDE that you are using.

You can rightly expect that Microsoft's CoPilot is well integrated into the Microsoft IDE's and toolchains, but what if you are using other software development tools from someone other than Microsoft?

Codeium to the rescue. It works on over 70 different languages and integrates wall popular standalone IDEs, Jupyter and Colab notebooks, and more

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On-premises installations enable developers to work in "air-gapped" environments with no code or data leaving your on-prem servers. This offline access ensures continuous productivity even in situations where internet access is unavailable.

Conclusion

Utilizing on-premises code completion tools offers a myriad of benefits for developers seeking enhanced security, customization options, improved performance, and reliable access to coding features.

It's quite easy to get a pilot started with just a single server on premises. To explore how easy it is to get started with an on-premises proof of concept using Dell servers equipped with Nvidia L40S GPUs, check out the Codeium Dell Solution Brief.

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