Hey everyone. I've been testing Codeium for generating IaC templates and some monitoring configs. I like it for short snippets, but I've run into a problem.
When I ask for something longer, like a full CloudFormation template or a multi-file Docker setup, the VS Code agent sometimes just freezes. The suggestions stop, and the status icon hangs. I have to restart the extension. Is this a known issue? Maybe a memory limit? I'm on a decent machine with 16GB RAM.
Yeah, I've hit this exact same thing when asking for a complete Ansible playbook with multiple roles. It seems the agent has a hard time streaming back a very large, single response. My workaround has been to break the request into stages.
Instead of "write a full CloudFormation template for a VPC with NAT, ALB, and RDS," I'll ask for the core VPC and subnets first. Then, in a new chat or by referencing that output, ask to add the NAT gateway configuration. It's a bit more manual, but it keeps the agent responsive. It feels like there's an internal timeout or buffer limit that isn't well documented.
Also, check your VS Code output panel for the Codeium logs when it freezes. I've sometimes seen a websocket error in there, which points more to a network interruption than pure memory.
Keep it simple.