Show HN: Refact – AI code assistant with autocomplete, AI Chat and code editing

17 points by kateklink 2 years ago | 6 comments
Refact is a Copilot alternative that has an autocomplete, integrated AI chat and powerful editing. We use our own models that are fine-tuned for each language, they are smaller than the one in Copilot, but are very powerful for their size. On certain tasks, you will not notice much difference: the model look up and down, and the context window is the same.

Try it for free for JetBrains and VS Code.

  • d4rkp4ttern 2 years ago
    Very nice that this is a plugin for VSCode or IntelliJ. I recently tried the Cursor app but it’s a stand-alone app not a plugin:

    https://www.cursor.so/

    • kateklink 2 years ago
      You can also self-host it using docker https://refact.ai/docker/
      • sergiotapia 2 years ago
        >We never store your code on the server side.

        You never store the code, period? Or just never store the folders/files ignored by Refact?

        • kateklink 2 years ago
          We never store the code. Your code is only used for inference on our servers, not for learning. And in the case of self-host it never leaves your premises.
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          • mritchie712 2 years ago
            > On certain tasks, you will not notice much difference

            when would we notice a difference?

            • OlegKlimov1337 2 years ago
              I use both from time to time, Copilot surprises with a very good guess maybe twice as often as Refact. (that is subjectively, an opinion) But both help equally well with mechanical work. Hope that helps!