CODING AND PROGRAMMING: THE AI REVOLUTION

Summary

GenAI can turn natural language instructions into functioning code, which essentially turns English (or whatever our native tongue is) into a computer programming language. Clearly, GenAI is going to be a revolutionary tool for programmers. But it may also prove a useful tool for everyday folks who want to, say, build an app or create a piece of software, but don't know any programming languages. Seattle‐based real estate company, Redfin, has used large language models including ChatGPT to help with programming tasks. Codacy is an AI code quality/code analysis tool that helps to automate code analysis. CodeWhisperer is Amazon's code generation tool, developed using open‐source code and Amazon's own data. The tool takes natural language prompts and creates code based on the programmer's objectives, in their style. It can also be used for code completion.