Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on vendors of AI code assistants, leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute. That's perhaps unsurprising as ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Codespaces Alternative: AWS Cloud9, SSH & VS Code

Amazon Web Services offers up a remote development setup for Visual Studio Code developers that involves an SSH connection to leverage the AWS Cloud9 IDE and other functionality. Although not ...
InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
TechCrunch

Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or ...
Business Insider

You should still learn to code, says the CEO of GitHub. And you should start as early as possible.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke believes coding should be taught as a core subject in schools. In a recent podcast interview, he said AI "democratizes" access to software development. Developers should use ...