Codeium
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What is Codeium?
A fast, widely-used AI coding assistant providing highly accurate autocomplete and chat features, operating as the underlying technology that powers the Windsurf IDE.
Codeium offers extensions across a wide variety of IDEs, providing fast inline completions and context-aware chat. While the company is shifting focus toward their standalone Windsurf IDE, the Codeium plugin remains a highly popular, low-friction tool for developers who want robust AI assistance in their existing editor.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit sits beside an in-editor assistant like Codeium rather than replacing it: your editor still edits code, and Orbit handles the queue and everything around it. See What is Orbit for details.
When you would use it
You use the Codeium plugin when you want powerful, free or enterprise-grade AI autocomplete in your current editor without migrating to an entirely new IDE.
Common operations
- Generating boilerplate logic instantly via fast autocomplete.
- Highlighting code blocks to ask for quick explanations or refactors.
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