OpenAI launches Codex as powerful new ChatGPT feature while Grok flounders
There’s a weird divide in the AI world these days. While Grok keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons, OpenAI is pushing ahead with features that actually seem useful for developers. The newest one is called Codex, and it’s built right into ChatGPT for anyone with a Pro, Team, or Enterprise account. Sorry, Plus users.
Codex doesn’t just suggest code, it operates almost like a teammate that can jump into your repository, set up its own isolated workspace, and get to work on whatever you ask. Whether you need a bug fixed, a question answered, or a feature built, Codex can handle it. When it’s done, you get a real code commit and a detailed log showing every step the AI took. How cool is that?
How useful is GenAI in software development? [Q&A]
Generative AI (GenAI) holds a lot of promise for software developers: an ability to help them ship code faster, improve productivity, and reduce time spent on menial and repetitive tasks. But how much of that promise are GenAI coding tools actually delivering -- and how much is hype?
We spoke with Matt Hoffman, product manager and data analyst at Uplevel, an engineering intelligence platform that uses data from across developer tools and collaboration platforms to help engineering leaders drive organizational improvements. Uplevel's data science team, Uplevel Data Labs, recently studied the impact of Copilot usage on developer productivity.
Microsoft launches .NET Smart Components to give developers AI-powered UI controls
There is just about no field of technology that is not somehow being enhanced by artificial intelligence. Microsoft has already shown its own love of AI by introducing it to various aspects of Windows and other products, and the latest release from the company is .NET Smart Components.
These are described as "AI-powered UI controls" that Microsoft says can be quickly and easily add to .NET apps. Billed, unsurprisingly, as "genuinely useful", the company says the components remove the need to "spend weeks of dev time redesigning your UX or researching machine learning and prompt engineering".