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Zencoder at the moment presents two built-in brokers, for unit take a look at technology and coding, and an interface for outlining customized brokers. Customized brokers are primarily named, saved instruction prompts for the big language mannequin, geared toward fixing particular duties.
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Zencoder in comparison with rivals
Zencoder (the corporate) helpfully ready comparison charts for Zencoder (the product) and eight rivals. Not surprisingly, since I by no means actually belief what one vendor has to say about one other’s product even once they try to be honest and balanced, I feel that each one of those comparisons had been designed to tout Zencoder. Some have inaccuracies that understate the rival’s capabilities, and several other appear to be about older, much less succesful variations of the competitors. For instance, the Copilot facet of the screenshot beneath is newer than the model Zencoder used to jot down its comparability.
Zencoder omitted Solver from their comparisons. Given how new Solver is, that’s comprehensible. Nonetheless, Solver is much more promising than Zencoder, because it not solely reads entire repositories, it may possibly modify entire repos. You’ll be able to read my review of Solver here.
On the left, you’ll be able to see Zencoder’s clarification of a C++ sorting operate; on the proper, you’ll be able to see GitHub Copilot’s clarification of the identical code utilizing the o1-preview mannequin. On the prime you’ll be able to see the Zencoder features out there in VS Code within the Zencoder v0.5.1 plugin. General, I like the reason on the precise higher, however I’m keen on a documentation model that mixes phrases and code.
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An formidable try
Zencoder is, for my part, an formidable try to enter the code technology and restore market, however it’s nonetheless moist behind the ears. Utilizing a pipeline with error correction to keep away from hallucinations, as a substitute of straight code technology with an LLM, sounds promising, however it isn’t ipso facto higher than a mannequin that generates appropriate code proper out of the field and suppresses hallucinations internally. Equally, “grokking” entire repositories ought to present higher context than simply taking a look at no matter pages are open within the editor, however the time it takes to digest giant repos is critical, and it seems to be like Zencoder redoes that course of from scratch everytime you refresh the repo.
