Artificial intelligence (AI) Get with the program – AI-assisted coding is here to stay

Generative AI has hit the public imagination in full force during 2022. Perhaps the biggest splash was made by OpenAI's launch of the text-to-image generator DALL-E 2 with its stunning illustrations. Under the guise of generative AI art, code-completion programs are boosting developer productivity by automating repetitive and mundane programming tasks. The world's largest source code host GitHub released its code-completion tool called Copilot in June 2022. It is trained on 45 terabytes of coding data from the GitHub code repository and runs on OpenAI's Codex model.