2022: The Year AI Came to Coding - The New Stack

This was the year that saw GitHub Copilot move from a plug-in on Jetbrain, where it was first launched in 2021, to broad availability for the Visual Studio IDE in March. It was followed by the release of Amazon's code completion service, Code Whisperer, in June, and Replit's Ghostwriter in October. Tabnine, an AI startup for code generation, secured $15.5 million in funding, while another code-completion startup, Kite, died in the wake of Copilot's popularity. And then, too, by the end of the year, it all ended up as a big question mark when GitHub wound up in litigation over its use of open source repositories in Copilot. Although much of the focus in 2022 was on automated coding and code completion, it turns out that AI technologies transformed code in more subtle ways in the past year. "We don't believe we're going to see AI replace DevOps engineers or platform engineers, but really augment them," said Zach Zaro, co-founder and CEO of Coherence, a DevOps automation startup that leverages AI. "You have a lot happening at the application layer level -- AI coming to help developers write application code, not infrastructure code."