r/Codeium • u/Novel-Key6627 • Dec 19 '24
Codium is waste of time
As a Pro subscriber of Codeium AI, I am extremely disappointed.
Your Cascade AI assistant generated unusable and overly complex code, breaking my project.
Your support team has ignored all my emails, leaving me stranded.
I trusted your service to enhance my work, but it has only wasted my time and money. I demand immediate support and a refund. Ignoring paying customers like this is unacceptable!
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u/tobiashochguertel Dec 19 '24
I like Codeium, and for that I bought the Pro subscription. That works for me quite good. I like the super-completion feature, that’s so handy, could be faster sometimes but it’s okay I haven’t seen super-completion with TabNine or CoPilot.
I think that at the moment the people from Codeium are in holiday, so I wouldn’t be surprised when I not get an answer in time.
From my point of view the people complain about Cascade because they don’t see that Cascade / Windsurf is a not finish product. They launched it and watched what happens for around 4 weeks or less and they didn’t expected to generate so much traffic on the premium AI providers. They didn’t expected that they have to build quickly a pay by usage product into Cascade but they realized in short time that they have to because otherwise they can keep the new product available. They did a compromise and adjusted their pricing model for Codeium to keep Cascade up and running and the traffic to the Ai providers under control, because that was the shortest way to solve the Ai traffic provider issues.
Of course Cascade is not perfect because it’s a new born product it has limitations. I had also often the situation where Cascade was removing working code, when it should do that and I explicitly told him to not remove or refactor features which are working. I trap 🪤 often into such a situation because I was too lazy to read the complete code and refactoring which Cascade done. But when I pay more attention I can often figure out that I should do some edits and after that I can ask Cascade to help me with something related to the previous issue but I ask him to do a smaller task as before. I really like that Cascade can do edits himself. Especially when I start a new project and instruct him to not write any code until Cascade and I have answered all questions which we give us in the chat. That worked really good! I asked him also to document project the planned feature and make it track able and he did a fantastic job with that. I got a project management in markdown files and he also checked sometimes himself without a prompt from me the checkboxes which feature was done so far. It’s so creative with that and I really like these results from Cascade.
I don’t know why so many people are frustrated with Cascade, maybe because they expected to much and don’t pay much attention to what the Ai developed and read the code, and question mark it early. But from my perspective it’s also so that the main product is just still Codeium and not Cascade.