Metabob

Metabob is an AI coding assistant that uses a combination of graph-attention networks and generative AI to help with code review, refactoring and debugging. It's designed to improve software security and quality by finding and fixing complex coding problems that span multiple codebases.

Metabob's technology uses graph neural networks (GNNs) to find problematic code and understand its context. The problems are then fed to large language models (LLMs) that generate context-specific explanations and fixes. The result is that Metabob can find logical problems that static analysis tools often can't, like race conditions and unhandled edge cases.

The platform includes several features:

• AI Code Review: Analyzes codebases to find and automatically fix complex problems, improving code quality and reliability.
• Software Security Scanning: Finds known security vulnerabilities and ensures compliance with industry standards, with a false positive rate of less than 5%.
• Debug and Refactor: Offers context-specific code recommendations for bugs and code smells, helping developers debug faster and enforce best practices.
• Self-Hosted Deployment: Can be run on-premise for customized bug detection and tailored to meet the needs of a specific organization.
• Integration Options: Integrates with popular development tools like GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab, and with IDE integration with VSCode and a CLI tool for flexibility.

Metabob is designed to work in a variety of situations:

• Legacy Code Maintenance: Helps companies cope with complex, sprawling legacy codebases.
• New Code Analysis: Finds bugs early in the development process to save time and money.
• Validating AI-Generated Code: Scans AI-generated code for bugs and suggests fixes to improve its quality.

Metabob pricing includes a free individual developer plan, with unlimited analyses on VS Code. The 'Team' plan costs $20 per month per developer and adds features like quality gates and project insights. The 'Enterprise' plan offers customizable bug detection models, self-hosted deployment and full-time support, and pricing is available by request.

Metabob hopes to boost developer productivity and software security by offering a powerful AI code review and refactoring tool. Its technology is advanced, but its flexibility in deployment makes it useful for developers and companies.

Published on June 9, 2024