Generative language models can not only generate, classify and summarize text, but also seek to revolutionize software development. Barely a month goes by without a new language model being introduced, which is trained with billions of source code tokens from different programming languages and dialects. While early code wizards were good at completing existing code or generating code based on entered comments, current LLMs can assist across the entire software lifecycle.
The advantage of this is that in the DevOps process, developers no longer have to leave the development environment to create different code assets. Not just exclusive products like GitHub co-pilot Or codiaum Support with plug-ins for common integrated development environments is promised.
- Anyone who uses code assistants like GitHub Copilot or Codium as software as a service will need to push their source code to the cloud. This creates legal challenges for some companies.
- In addition to large language models from the cloud, the Continue.Dev plug-in for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains products can also integrate local or self-powered LLM.
- In addition to code completion, Continue.Dev integrates separately configurable chat models and embeddings so you can query your own code.
- The plug-in supports developers in all stages of the DevOps process, such as deploying services to cloud providers.
Ramon Wartla is Director of Data Science at Accenture Song in Hamburg. As a consultant, he and his team design and implement data architectures for their clients’ machine learning solutions.
There are now many IDE plug-ins that require very different requirements for use. products like codegpt For example, OpenAI requires access to GPT-4 or the AWS Bedrock service and are only free in the basic version. Other plugins like codeassist JetBrains products communicate with servers in the provider’s cloud.
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