Kite (code writing system)

2022: Disclosure of system sources

On November 16, 2022, the startup Kite, which created an artificial intelligence-based tool to help developers write code, announced its closure. The Kite sources are publicly available, so everyone can use them.

We have stopped working on Kite and no longer support this software. Thanks to everyone who used our product, and thanks to our team members and investors who made this project possible, "wrote Kite founder Adam Smith.

It is said that the Kite project, which was actively developed from 2014 to 2021, failed for two main reasons. One of them is that Kite was ahead of its time. According to Mr. Smith, the startup entered the AI programming market ten years earlier than the industry required. In fact, at that time, the necessary technologies were not yet fully available. In its work, Kite relied on local computing resources of the computer, and not on more powerful and flexible cloud platforms.

All sources of the AI code writing system are disclosed

The second reason is that the project participants did not manage to monetize their tool, despite the huge user base of 500 thousand active developers. Programmers did not want to pay for access to Kite, as a result of which financial difficulties arose.

Creating an instrument of the necessary quality that can reliably synthesize code can cost more than $100 million, and no one has yet tried to do so. We conducted an experiment, and despite all efforts, it failed, "notes Adam Smith.

From November 2022, the bulk of the Kite code is available on the Github platform under the terms of the BSD-3-Clause license, which allows modification and commercial application of the product, but prohibits the use of the name of the original solution in derivative developments.^[1]

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