Chapter 3
AI Coding Tools
IN THIS CHAPTER
Flying with Copilot
Coding with Tabnine
Working together with Replit
Generative AI has made new types of tools available to coders and has enabled many legacy tools to integrate AI functionality. In this chapter, you look at three of the most popular GenAI coding tools — GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and Replit — gaining hands-on experience setting up and using the basic features of each.
Navigating GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based AI coding tool developed by GitHub (which is part of Microsoft) and OpenAI (the creators of the GPT-x models behind ChatGPT and many other tools). Copilot was launched in June 2021 and currently integrates with several code editors and IDEs, including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains's IDEs.
The GenAI model behind Copilot is named OpenAI Codex. Codex is based on OpenAI's GPT-3 and is also trained on source code from millions of public GitHub repositories and other publicly available source code.
Although Copilot works best with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go, it has been trained on source code from over a dozen programming languages and will continue to become ...
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