Compare Pieces vs. Cody

Pieces™ is an on-device AI coding assistant designed to enhance developer productivity. It helps tackle complex programming tasks by comprehensively understanding your workflow. Utilize real-time context from your entire toolkit to pose questions, capture crucial details, explain concepts or entire codebases, and produce ready-to-deploy code. Pieces operates smoothly within your workflow, flawlessly integrating with your preferred tools to optimize, clarify, and advance your coding activities.

Cody is an advanced AI coding assistant developed by Sourcegraph to enhance the efficiency and quality of software development. It integrates seamlessly with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as VS Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and various JetBrains IDEs, providing features like AI-driven chat, code autocompletion, and inline editing without altering existing workflows. Designed to support both individual developers and teams, Cody emphasizes consistency and quality across entire codebases by utilizing comprehensive context and shared prompts. It also extends its contextual understanding beyond code by integrating with tools like Notion, Linear, and Prometheus, thereby gathering a holistic view of the development environment. By leveraging the latest Large Language Models (LLMs), including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o, Cody offers tailored assistance that can be optimized for specific use cases, balancing speed and performance. Developers have reported significant productivity gains, with some noting time savings of approximately 5-6 hours per week and a doubling of coding speed when using Cody.