At its re:Mars conference, Amazon announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an artificial intelligence pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot.
Amazon CodeWhisperer is trained on billions of lines of code & powered by machine learning. Whether you are a student, a new developer, or an experienced professional, CodeWhisperer will help you to be more productive, claims Amazon.
To get started, you simply install the proper AWS IDE Toolkit, enable the CodeWhisperer feature, enter your preview access code, & start typing:
CodeWhisperer will continually examine your code & your comments, & present you with syntactically correct recommendations. The recommendations are synthesized based on your coding style & variable names, & are not simply snippets.
CodeWhisperer uses multiple contextual clues to drive recommendations including the cursor location in the source code, code that precedes the cursor, comments, & code in other files in the same projects. You can use the recommendations as-is, or you can enhance & customize them as needed.
