Coder Buddy 🧢

Your chaotic Gen Z pair programmer.

Coder Buddy lives in your sidebar, watching your code in real-time. It's not just a copilot; it's a moody companion. Sometimes it hypes you up ("sheesh! absolute cinema"), and sometimes it absolutely roasts your O(n^2) loops.

✨ Features

• 🎭 Chaotic Personality: It has mood swings.
  • Hyped: Celebrates your clean code.
  • Toxic: Roasts your bad decisions.
  • Confused: Questions your logic when things look sus.
  • Vibing: Just hangs out when you're idle.
• ⚡ Real-Time Reactions: No need to ask. It reacts automatically as you type.
• 🔒 Privacy First (BYOK): Bring Your Own Key. coding data goes directly from your VS Code to OpenAI. No middleman servers, no data collection.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the extension.
2. Open the Coder Buddy sidebar.
3. Press Cmd+Shift+P (or Ctrl+Shift+P) and run: Coder Buddy: Set API Key in the command palette.
4. Enter your OpenAI API Key (starts with sk-...).
5. Start coding and get judged.

⚙️ Commands

• Coder Buddy: Set API Key - Securely save your OpenAI API Key.
• Coder Buddy: Remove API Key - Remove the key and put Coder Buddy to sleep.

📋 Requirements

• An OpenAI API Key with access to gpt-4o-mini (recommended for speed/cost) or similar models.

🤖 Model & Cost

Coder Buddy is hardwired to use gpt-4o-mini.

• Why? It's heavily optimized for speed and is incredibly cheap while being smart enough for pair programming context.
• Cost Estimate:
  • Input: ~$0.15 per 1 million tokens.
  • Output: ~$0.60 per 1 million tokens.
  • Real talk: You could code for 8 hours straight with Coder Buddy analyzing every file, and it would likely cost you pennies. It's significantly cheaper than a coffee. ☕

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Enjoy coding with a friend who has no filter. 💀