Zillow on Codeium

Zillow

Zillow is a tech real-estate marketplace company with over 6,000 employees that does nearly $2 billion in revenue annually.

As a technology company, enabling their developers to do their best work is a key priority for Zillow’s leadership. Zillow was quick to identify AI code assistants as high-potential technology for delivering on this priority.

Zillow and Codeium

Over the last 18 months, Zillow evaluated a handful of AI code assistance tools, before looking at Codeium.

Codeium made sense to Zillow for a variety of reasons:

• Personalization capabilities that worked with their SCM (Source Code Management)
• Data & Analytics: Wanting to make sure that they could get insights from the usage of the AI tool, Zillow was interested in the real-time analytics dashboards that Codeium provides out-of-the-box.
• IDE compatibility: With many XCode developers to build Zillow’s iOS application, Zillow was encouraged by Codeium’s support of the XCode IDE, which is uncommon among code assistants.
• SSO support: All of Codeium’s plans have support for Okta integration, allowing Zillow to control access to the tool.

After a series of pilots of increasing scope, Codeium’s Enterprise SaaS tier was chosen by Zillow to support its thousands of developers. The feedback throughout the pilot period helped validated Zillow’s hypotheses of Codeium, with some of the following quotes from developers:

I am happy to report I now have Codeium online and working. Thus far I have been VERY happy with the speed of the chat and of suggestions. It has been lightning.

From some quick testing I just did, it’s clear that for my work (iOS in Xcode), Codeium is way better than other tools we have looked at. I suspect that’s just a function of the tooling being a bit more mature: setup was way smoother and autocomplete is a way better entry point than typing out a query.

Started with Codeium yesterday. Even though my experience is brief, I’m already finding it way more than useful.

Results and Looking Forward

Codeium has been deployed at Zillow at scale for over half a year. Since the start of 2024, Codeium has seen a steady adoption rate.

More than just increased developer productivity, new developers have found Codeium’s context awareness to help them onboard much more quickly. As one developer at Zillow stated:

For me it’s been a big help in ramping up to learn new technologies and codebases. For context, I just joined a couple months back so I’m still learning the ropes… Since around the time I joined, Zillow adopted using Codeium which made the learning curve a lot easier for someone who’s new to the job.

Codeium is proud to be supporting Zillow, as well as a number of other technology companies. Codeium continues to be the AI code assistant that integrates with any configuration of your existing toolset (IDEs, SCMs, SSO provider, etc), avoiding vendor lock-in for any of these technologies. Reach out if you are interested on how Codeium can enable your entire developer team to be more productive: