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AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot


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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making its Amazon Q Developer AI assistant available as an add-on developers can access directly at any point of their coding, within their Integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio Code and JetBrains, the company announced today in a blog post authored by Jose Yapur, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

Simply highlighting text will bring up a list of new Q Developer actions as options, including “Optimize this code”, “Add comments”, or “Write tests”.

Selecting any of these, the human developer can enter specific instructions or prompts into a text box and then sit back and relax for a few seconds while Q Developer performs the requested action on its own. See it in action below in an animation posted by AWS today.

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