Show HN: Refact – AI code assistant with autocomplete, AI Chat and code editing
refact.aiRefact 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.
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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/
You can also self-host it using docker https://refact.ai/docker/
You never store the code, period? Or just never store the folders/files ignored by Refact?
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.
when would we notice a difference?
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!