A coding assistant like Phind could be your latest valuable addition.
What Is Phind?
Think of Phind as an AI-driven alternative toStack Overflow.
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Phind is a search engine tuned to the needs of developers.
This default free plan uses a model called Phind-34B which gives promising results.
How Do You Use It?
you could even be quite vague in your wording and Phind will understand your meaning.
Drop punctuation, ignore case, misspell words; Phind cares not for these conventions!
How Good Are Phinds Answers?
All well and good, but how does Phind actually perform?
I asked Phind:
what does the javascript ?
It’s certainly something that a tool like Phind should understand and be able to answer questions on.
Fortunately, the results were good:
This is just a small excerpt from the full code sample.
In total, Phind gave me 60 lines of commented, nicely structured C code.
The code compiledwithout errors or warningsand ran as expected.
This called for a more theoretical topic, steering away from code and veering towards opinion.
Phind had no issue with this.
Once more, for researching a specific issue, Phind looks like a great bet.
But its a common mistake, arising from a typo, that any programmer can make regardless of experience.
Im not AIs greatest fan, so I approached this tool with caution.
However, Phind impressed me overall.
Phinds responses were mostly accurate and usually contained useful information that could help a programmer struggling with a problem.
Ill certainly be adding it to my toolkit to make future programming a bit less painful.
