Powering tomorrow's machine learning models

AI-assisted coding is the use of AI tools to help write and manage software. Instead of manually typing every line, a developer can get suggestions, auto-completion, and even entire functions generated by an AI.

- ARAVIND PUTREVU

Imagine describing a software task and watching an AI generate the code for you. This scenario is no longer science fiction-it's becoming a daily reality for developers. AI coding (or Al-assisted coding) refers to using artificial intelligence to aid software developers in writing, reviewing, and improving code. There are several tools available now that act as 'AI pair programmers', transforming natural language instructions into working code.

What is AI coding?

AI-assisted coding is the use of AI tools to help write and manage software. Instead of manually typing every line, a developer can get suggestions, auto-completion, and even entire functions generated by an AI. These assistants leverage large language models (LLMs) - algorithms trained on massive amounts of code and natural language - to understand prompts and produce relevant code. In practice, they function like an intelligent autocomplete for coding: as you write code or comments, the AI predicts what you need next. For example, a comment saying "// sort a list of dictionaries by a key" might prompt the AI to generate a Python function to do exactly that.