Microsoft wants to make it simpler to build AI apps with its new developer tool

Microsoft has launched several new AI-powered tools designed to improve the developer experience as well as the brand new GitHub Copilot for Azure, a coding assistant that will be embedded in popular development environments like Visual Studio Code.

Amanda Silver, CVP of Product for Microsoft’s Developer Division, said in an interview with VentureBeat that developers are faced with a growing number of tools that are leading to “cognitive overload,” hence the introduction of what should hopefully be a simpler process.

Quantifying the added stress that an excess of tools brings, Microsoft revealed switching can cost developers up to 23 minutes each time, which adds up over the course of a week.

Microsoft wants to simplify developers’ lives

To coincide with the announcement and the coding platform’s recent series of announcements, GitHub’s CPO Mario Rodriguez noted that the future workload of developers will center around integrating AI into ...