We’ve come up with a bit of a different concept for what a coding agent should be. We believe it should work in tandem with a developer inside the IDE. Over time as the tech improves, it will get more and more autonomy.
We’ve been using our coding agent internally and see a 5-10x boost on some tasks.
The agent is available now to Codiumate VS Code users. We want to hear what kind of tasks it works well on and improve it over time to expand the task set. Would love to get feedback.
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That's my experience with co-pilots too:
- Generating tests
- Generating functions consistent with prevailing style of similar functionality in the existing codebase. The greater the consistency, the more helpful the AI is at generating.
- Telling me why my code is crap by adding a `# todo: ` above some code and seeing what the AI suggests should be changed :)
What other tasks do you see as good target for 5-10x boosts?
To put it simple: Like copilot, it does have an auto-complete and also chat interface. Different than copilot, it focuses on generating a full code task plan, then having the auto completion work acrroding to your plan, and it check the of quality code.
Like agents, it tries to help you complete a full task, yet,does that in tandem with you, as you work inside tour favorite IDE writing the code with you. In addition, there is focus on code quality, testing, and fetching relevant context from your codebase.
AI will not replace devs. Devs that use AI will replace devs that do not use AI.
The most effective devs will be those employing a fleet of AI agents, acting as the glue and guiding hand for what the agents should produce.
This helps us get to that future, so I think this has legs.
I use VS code. I will try this out.
In the near future, the agent will suggest these for you, after first indexing your code base