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The Rise of AI Pair Programmers – Teaming Up with Intelligent Assistants for Better Code

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues advancing, coding assistants have emerged as powerful tools to aid software developers. In this chapter, we will explore the capabilities of modern coding assistants and how they are transforming the process of writing computer programs.

Coding assistants can generate boilerplate code, explain code functionality in plain language, add comments and reformat existing code, debug errors, and optimize code performance. They can even translate code from one programming language to another.

With LLMs, these AI systems understand developer intents and generate relevant code snippets and documentation. We will look at ...

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