Show HN: Refact – AI code assistant with autocomplete, AI Chat and code editing

[kateklink]

Refact 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.

[d4rkp4ttern]

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/

[kateklink]

You can also self-host it using docker https://refact.ai/docker/

[sergiotapia]

>We never store your code on the server side.

You never store the code, period? Or just never store the folders/files ignored by Refact?

[kateklink]

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.

[mritchie712]

> On certain tasks, you will not notice much difference

when would we notice a difference?

[OlegKlimov1337]

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!