Introduction
One of the early use cases of modern generative AI was code generation. A couple years before the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, OpenAI made Codex available as a private beta API. The system was fine-tuned on billions of lines of public repositories and could generate code for various languages. Codex proved to be extremely popular. The technology also became the basis of GitHub Copilot.
Since then, the underlying generative models have made giant leaps in progress. They can process enormous amounts of data, use advanced reasoning, and process information in real time.
Now, AI coding is becoming an essential part of a developer’s toolbelt. Even people with little or no technical experience can create useful applications—something ...
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