Amazon Develops a Writing Tool for the Developers
The software developers have benefited from an announcement by Amazon. On Thursday, Amazon proclaimed that they are launching a tool to help the software developers, the latest such effort by the tech industry.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Amazon comes up with a new tool for software developers
- Amazon CodeWhisper is a machine learning-powered service
- it sees all necessities like scans for security and bias issues
The service is, therefore, referred to as Amazon CodeWhisperer. It suggests the ways it can be programmed and its usage as a scanner for security and bias problems in web developers' projects, Swami Sivasubramanian, a vice president at Amazon's cloud division, said at a company conference in the city.
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The newly launched CodeWhisperer by Amazon may be a machine learning (ML)–powered service. It claims to assist in enhancing developer productivity by generating code recommendations. In keeping with the data provided by AWS, these recommendations will base on the developers' comments in their natural language and their code is within the integrated development environment(IDE).
CodeWhisperer has claimed to take care of all the necessary things a developer might need while writing codes. These codes have multiple programming languages, frameworks, software libraries, and popular cloud services. The algorithmic is supposed to pick up the command by the user and then select the best cloud service along public libraries suited for the required task. Later, it recommends a code snippet directly in the source code editor.
The AI algorithmic can be available for preview even at no price in Java, JavaScript, and Python programming languages. The service integrates with multiple IDEs, JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm), Visual Studio Code, AWS Cloud9, and the AWS Lambda console.
Moreover, developers may also defend their codes by using CodeWhisperer to observe the vulnerabilities in their projects and then build applications responsibly.
The company is seemed to announce that the support for the AWS Lambda Console is presently under work and will prepare shortly.