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

Show HN: Refact – AI code assistant with autocomplete, AI Chat and code editing(refact.ai)

17 points by kateklink 3 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 3 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 3 years ago |

You can also self-host it using docker https://refact.ai/docker/

sergiotapia 3 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 3 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.

mritchie712 3 years ago |

> On certain tasks, you will not notice much difference

when would we notice a difference?

OlegKlimov1337 3 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!