AI-Powered Coding Assistant Aims to Help, Not Replace Developers

Software code is the mathematics-like language that powers computer applications, which underpin many core business functions, from sales and marketing, to human resources, accounting and finance. The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. "The process of writing code has remained mostly manual," Mr. Dohmke said Wednesday at Collision 2022, a startup and investing conference held in Toronto. Instead, he said, the AI coding tool acts like a predictive-text feature on smartphones. As developers work, the tool suggests options for lines of code needed to execute given tasks, within a larger software program.