Tech giants and startups compete to build the best AI coding assistants
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Google's new Gemini Code Assist uses AI to help developers write code more quickly, similar to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. Major tech companies are competing to build the best AI-powered coding assistants.
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Startups like Pythagora, Tusk, and Ellipsis are also building more specialized AI tools to help developers with specific tasks like app creation, bug fixing, and turning comments into code.
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AI coding assistants are becoming ubiquitous for developers just starting out today. It's the "graphic calculator era" for software builders.
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There's some concern that eventually the AI tools ingesting lots of code to help humans may get smart enough to reduce the number of human developers needed.
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For now the tools seem to be very useful aids rather than replacements for human developers given the complexity of modern software services. But long term it's unclear if developer jobs could be impacted.