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FREE Augment Code Beats Cursor & Windsurf For Large Codebase Indexing!🤖 NEW AI Coding RAG

FREE Augment Code Beats Cursor & Windsurf For Large Codebase Indexing!🤖 NEW AI Coding RAG

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⌛ Timestamps

00:00-Introduction to Augment Code: Free AI Coding RAG Tool

01:49-Overview of Augment Code and Its Key Features

03:38-Benchmark Comparison: Augment Code vs GitHub Copilot

05:33-Installing & Setting Up Augment Code in VS Code

07:09-Using Augment Code for Codebase Understanding & Queries

09:07-Creating a Case Studies Page with Augment Code

11:11-Fetching & Displaying Data Using Augment Code

12:20-Final Thoughts: Augment Code vs Cursor & Windsurf

13:45-Sponsored Segment: Stride Agents AI-Powered Appointment Setters

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all right guys so on this channel we've

covered many different AI coding tools

we've covered wind surf we've covered

cursor we've covered Aid we've covered

bolt. new we've covered Temple Labs we

covered pythagora Project idx R code

Klein bolt. DIY the list goes on and on

and frankly right now we are in the AI

coding IDE extension and just tool race

right now everyone's trying to be the

best tool and I've tried many different

tools on this channel and you guys have

seen me test the tools out but there's

one thing that I found that you know

some of these tools are just not great

at and yes it's frankly simple to build

a quick to-do list app or really any app

and just get it from zero to somewhat

decent fairly quickly get some

prototyping maybe with one of the

browser AI coding tools like VZ or bolt

or lovable and then maybe bring it over

into cursor or wind Surf and start

building upon it but as you start

building for days weeks months and as

things continue on your code base just

gets bigger and bigger and quite frankly

the performance of the AI coding tool

lots of the times gets dumber and dumber

and even with the current models we just

have today if you had a specific way to

index large code bases and have the llm

be able to retrieve that information in

a needle and a hay stack and give you

the correct answer with the correct

context that would be extremely powerful

alone and if you can solve this problem

really really well then you're going to

have have a huge advantage in the AI

coding space and in today's video we're

going to cover a tool that claims to be

just that now that tool is augment code

now when you first see this tool you may

think oh this is just another VSS code

extension it's not even an IDE if I'm

going to use a VX code extension I'm

going to use through code or Klein and I

completely get that but stay tuned

because in today's video I'm going to

show you how you can actually use

augment code and why it's supposedly the

best when it comes to managing context

in large databases big complex repos and

the cool thing about this is you don't

have to choose cursor wind surf or

augment code you know since this is a vs

code extension you could still use an

IDE AI coding editor and then have

augment code when you actually need to

understand very complex things or needle

in a Hast stack or cursor just fails

this is when this tool can come in

really hand the best thing is guys this

is 100% for free so without Ado guys

let's dive right into it all right guys

so all links I cover in today's video

will be linked down below I definitely

recommend you check out their website

here as well as their doc so the first

AI coding assistant built for

professional software engineers and

large code bases so integrates with VSS

code jet brains and neovim so that's

good has all the different Integrations

you've tried the AI coding that simply

helps you build programs from scratch

now try the AI that teams the complexity

of evolving your most sophisticated code

bases and this is usually where a lot of

people get stuck you know it's like I

said it's pretty easy to spin something

up let actually follow through and get

your project done or or actually

optimize it in an efficient ways once it

actually does start getting done that's

where people struggle with you can see

here they're trusted by the world's

leading software company so just some

big names right here data Stacks

GoFundMe advisor 360 con web flow you

guys get the point so quickly master

your largest and most complex repos to

augment orients you in minutes even if

you're new to a project or working in an

unfamiliar code base so you can make

updates with confidence there are no

simple changes in production software

but augment manages the challenges for

you so here we can see some benchmarks

we can see the CC Val exact match

percentage right here so we can see the

comparison between GitHub co-pilot right

here as well as augment and it is

scoring higher now you may be wondering

how do they actually do this how do they

back up this claim and how does it work

well I'll leave this link to this blog

post down below if you want to check it

out but they have a different approach

to retrieval in short the dominant

approach in retrieval remains calling

generic model apis like open AI to

create embeddings for Snippets of code

files and documents and then uses

embedding search apis like pine cone to

retrieve Snippets related to the query

however this approach leads to poor

quality poor latency and potentially

even poor security therefore augment has

taken a different approach we have

developed an indexing and embedding

search system tailored to give you the

most relevant up up toate context across

all products goes a little bit more into

depth down here about you know some of

it how it actually works but it is

apparently a proprietary system and

we're going to see how well it works all

right guys so here on the pricing we can

see Experience Unlimited choose your PL

so there are three different plans you

have the Community Edition right here

which is 3,000 chat messages unlimited

completions unlimited instructions UNL

liit to next edits and then Community

Support now the one caveat is that AI

training is per so they could train it

on your c-base and then if you want to

be on the professional or Enterprise

professional is 30 bucks per month per

user and you get unlimited chats and

then unlimited everything else it's not

being trained on your data and then $60

a month per active user for Enterprise

you get a few different things here

slack integration analytics all this

good stuff and there is a 30-day free

trial if you did want to use one of the

paid plans so first things first you're

going to want to click on install right

here to start installing augment code

you're going to want to log in and then

download it in vs code or cursor or the

IDE of your choice all right guys so you

can see I have cursor opened up right

here I have augment already downloaded

once you download it and you open it and

sign in in a project it's going to say

augments codebase understanding requires

syncing your workspace to the secure

augment Cloud please Grant the

permission to sync your workspace so you

can go ahead and just click on sync

right here and it's going to start

syncing the code base we're at 11% and

then syncing complete so very quick we

can see augment has just finished

syncing our code base all right so now

you can see that it actually gave us an

overview of what our project includes so

this is a nexj S14 app for executive

stride a business focused on AI powered

sales Automation and agent Solutions key

aspects include core features technical

stack architecture so uses nextjs app

router server and client components

environment based configuration you get

the point and it also provides different

potential questions right here that you

could ask about the code base so what's

the site's configuration managed and

what's the key settings in Liv

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config.txt right here and then the API

integration and this is kind of the

interface you see so it's actually a

very nice interface you have a copy to

clipboard you can click here to actually

open this up and now we're in this file

like so and we can see our API

integration it's explaining it all right

here JavaScript SDK create client

walking us through every single little

thing all right so you can see here we

can do forward slash for actions right

here or the at symbol to tag files and

more so if we do forward slash we can do

things like like find things in your

codebase explain explain how selected

code Works fix issues in selected code

base write test for selected code and

document so write documentation for

selected code if I highlighted this

right here then clicked this for write

documentation and then click Send we can

see it's generating and now it should be

writing the documentation yep so we can

see that it's documenting the codebase

like here's initialize content full

client with EnV M variables uh type

definitions for Content models and then

we can see you know it's basically just

outlining the whole entire thing now the

cool thing is I don't know exactly what

model they're using on the back end side

of things I don't know if it's a custom

model I don't know if it's you know just

something like Claud sonit 3.5 even

though that would be quite expensive uh

to give this away for free but it is a

good model and as you can see it's very

fast and you know you get to use it for

free no API key so it's great so now to

imp ment this we can go ahead here and

just click on apply now it's applying

those changes okay so the cool thing is

we can either accept these one by one

like so by either just clicking this or

clicking enter or either clicking this

or hitting control enter to accept all

if we scroll down you'll see that the

only thing it should be adding is just a

documentation which it looks like it did

it correctly so I'm just going to accept

all okay now I'm actually going to try

to add a new page in here um which is

going to be a case study page and I'm

going to tell it to integrate it with

the content full uh content model that I

have right here so I'm going to paste

this in this is just exactly how I want

the testimonials to be structured I'm

just getting this Json from content.com

all right so I'm pasting this in I'm

just saying here I want to create a new

page for testimonials that will be

fetching from a new content model from

content full the page should be named

case studies and they have Dynamic Pages

for each individual testimonial um the

for case study should show all the case

studies that can be clicked on basically

the same setup I have for my blog and

the Vault page analyze the Vault page to

get an understanding I'm going to go

ahead here and click on send all right

so you can see that it just like when

you type something like this in cursor

it's going to take a long not a long

time it's just going to you'll see that

it's kind of like loading see how quick

augment code is all right so here it's

saying it will create a similar setup to

the blog Pages or case studies first

let's create the necessary interfaces

and functions okay so we'll just see

that it's doing that here now let's

create the case studies list page create

a new file so it can create new files so

we got the case studies right here now

it's saying I'll create the dynamic page

for the individual case studies so

create a new file and it got that right

so this setup provides and we can see it

should provide everything that we wanted

I'm going to go ahead and apply these

individually now so applying to codebase

our new case studies page I'm just going

to trust it and click accept all same

thing here I'm going to click accept all

and then here I'm going to click on

create all right so I'm getting a lot of

type errors so I'm just going to paste

these type errors in here okay so I'm

going to click on apply here accept all

okay some of those are gone there's

still a couple more okay there's just

one more left okay so looks like we're

getting an error here I'm just going to

copy this and paste it in right here

okay and now you can see we actually

have our case studies page right here

I'm in contentful here I'm just going to

make a test case study and we're going

to go ahead and click on publish right

here okay but I don't see the case study

right here so I'm going to go back to

augment and tell it that so I'm just

saying on the case studies page no case

studies are loading or fetching I also

pasted in the type errors as well all

right so it added the missing function

right here I'm going to accept this now

it's updating the case studies page

let's go ahead and accept this as well

all right and boom now we're on the case

study page and as you can see our case

study has been loaded this is our test

case study of course we click into here

here we can see that our actual Dynamic

case study page for/ test is working now

of course this is very basic I would

actually customize this make it look a

lot nicer and we can see that it did

change up the actual styling here but

that's okay we could go ahead and change

this later that's pretty much it guys

for this video on augment code let me

know what your thoughts are in the

comments Down Below guys if you tried

out this tool and if you have tried it

out let me know how you think it is to

something like cursor wind surf rode

Klein the two main things I would say

for this tool to that make it really

great are one it it's 100% for free at

least at the moment and two the deeper

context awareness around your whole code

base so if you're actually building out

a code base I wouldn't recommend

personally starting from this using this

as at the start like creating a whole

project I would recommend using

something like cursor wind surf whatever

the case is but once you actually have a

project if you're having trouble getting

different problems solved this could

definitely come in handy and potentially

be game-changing other than guys if

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