AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AI assistants close experience gaps, although they may lead to less secure, bug-prone code. Software engineering skills, like creating smart architecture for code, will still be relevant.
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You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Advertisement Before he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. Jackson, a computer science student, wanted to reduce the repetitive, sometimes boring tasks that a programmer could encounter.
"We were just trying to save people keystrokes. There was no talk of AI designing or writing full algorithms," he said. His startup eventually raised about $60 million and was acquired by the Israeli company Codota in 2019.
Jackson continued to work with AI, going on to intern and work at OpenAI , the company that built ChatGPT . In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. OpenAI competitors have launched widely used generative AI deve.
