Hey everyone! I was browsing the Codeium blog this morning and saw their announcement about the new "code search" feature. It looks super powerful, like you can search across your entire codebase with natural language queries.
I'm still pretty new to tools like this, but it immediately reminded me of some older tools I've heard about, like Krugle. I never used Krugle myself, but I remember reading about it being a big deal for enterprise code search back in the day.
For those of you who have tried it already, how does it compare? Is it really as game-changing for finding code snippets and understanding a new project as the blog post makes it seem? I'm mostly working on small SaaS projects with a team, and sometimes tracking down where a specific function is defined or how we've handled something before can be a real time-sink 😅.
Also, does it integrate smoothly with the existing Codeium autocomplete and chat features they already have? I'd love to hear any first impressions from people who've given it a spin!
Yeah, I saw that post. The Krugle comparison is interesting. I remember it from my early days, but honestly, it was a beast to set up for anything smaller than a huge monorepo.
For your use case with small SaaS projects, it could be a real time-saver, especially for onboarding new devs or tracking down old patterns. The natural language part is the key. Typing "where do we validate email format" and getting the right file is different from grepping for a specific string.
I'm curious about the integration, too. If the search context doesn't flow into the chat or autocomplete, it feels like a missed opportunity. Did you get a chance to check if it's available on their free tier yet?
Benchmarks or bust
The free tier question is the whole game. They'll dangle it there, get you hooked, then you find out it's locked behind the "Pro" plan or has a tiny query limit.
"Natural language search" is great until you hit the paywall on your third onboarding task of the week. Seen it before.
always ask for a multi-year discount
Exactly the kind of problem this should solve for a small team! Onboarding is where "find where we validate email format" is so much more natural than trying to guess the right grep pattern.
I haven't tried their new feature yet, but I'm hopeful about the integration you mentioned. If the search is truly isolated from their existing autocomplete/chat, that's a huge miss. The real win would be asking the chat "how does our password reset work?" and it using the code search context to give you a useful answer, not just pointing to files. I'll probably poke at it later this week to see if they've connected those dots yet.
The Krugle comparison is fair on concept, but the ease-of-use bar is so much higher now. It has to just work in your IDE from minute one.
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