How is this different from Qodo? Why isn’t it mentioned as a competitor?

I’ve hard time figuring out what codebuff brings to the table that hasn’t been done before other than being YC backed. I think to win in this massively competitive and fast moving market, you really have to put forward something significantly better than an expensive cobbled together script replicating OSS solutions…

I know this sounds harsh, but believe me, differentiation makes or breaks you sooner than later. Proper differentiation doesn’t have to be hard, it just needs to answer the question what you offer that I can’t get anywhere else at a similar price point. Right now, your offer is more expensive for basically something I get elsewhere better for 1/5 the price… I’m seriously worried whether your venture will be around in one or two years from now without a more convincing value prop.

From my experience of leaning more into full end to end Ai workflows building Rust, it seems that

1) context has clearly won over RAG. There is no way back.

2) workflow is the next obvious evolution and gets you an extra mile

3) adversial GAN training seems a path forward to get from just okay generated code to something close to a home run on the first try

4) generating a style guide based on the entire code base and feeding that style guide together with the task and context into the LLM is your ticket to enterprise customers because no matter how good your stuff might be , if the generated code doesn’t fit the mold you are not part of the conversation. Conversely, if you deliver code in the same style and formatting and it actually works, well, price doesn’t matter much.

5) in terms of marketing to developers, I suggest starting listening to their pain points working with existing Ai tools. I don’t have one single of the problems you try to solve. Im sitting over a massive Rust monorepo and I’ve seen virtually every existing Ai coding assistant failing one way or another. The one I have now works miracles half the time and only fails the other half. That is already a massive improvement compared to everything else I tried over the past four years.

Point is, there is a massive need for coding assistance on complex systems and for CodeBuff to make a dime of a difference, you have to differentiate from what’s out there by starting with the challenges engineers face today.