AI Assistance for Software Developer Productivity – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

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Visual Studio IntelliCode

Microsoft have been experimenting with adding AI assistance to software development since the release of Visual Studio IntelliCode in 2018. This Visual Studio extension aims to improve the developer experience by providing more “common sense” suggestions for the code being written. Some examples are, suggesting changes to ensure a consistent code style and changing the order of suggested methods and properties from IntelliSense to reflect how likely you are to use them.

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub (owned by Microsoft) has also recently released a technical preview of GitHub CoPilot, which is described as an “AI pair programmer”. This provides AI assistance to complete the writing of repetitive code (such as mapping between two objects), helping write tests, or even suggesting entire methods based upon the name you start typing or a comment describing the desired result.

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