AI coding assistants shine for boilerplate code, simple functions, documentation, debugging, and other routine tasks. Don’t push them too far.

Learning to code is about a lot more than just programming basics, OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said.

With Q, a developer can keep coding while Q runs off to do “errands.” All fine and interesting. In fact, “everyone’s doing it” these days: GitHub Copilot, Google Codey, ChatGPT, and more.

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To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code.