Ten More Tools to Try

Summary

This chapter introduces ten more tools to help us with coding. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI extension that is available for many popular IDEs, including VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and SageMaker Studio. Like other coding assistants, Sourcegraph Cody is available as an IDE plug‐in. DeepMind AlphaCode is an AI system that specializes in competitive programming. Google Bard can generate code in more than 20 languages, help with debugging, and explain code. Codeium is a coding assistant and chatbot that can write, explain, refactor, and translate code. Microsoft IntelliCode integrates with GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat to generate context‐aware code completion suggestions. Sourcery is an AI pair programmer chatbot that is available as an extension for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Bugasura can integrate with a performance monitoring tool, as well as with Slack, Jira, GitHub, Asana, and Zendesk.