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Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, gets ‘agentic’ abilities


Gemini Code Assist, Google's AI coding assistant, is gaining new 'agentic' capabilities in preview.

During its Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, Google said Code Assist can now deploy new AI “agents” that can take multiple steps to accomplish complex programming tasks. Code Assist’s upgrades are likely in response to competitive pressure from rivals such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cognition Labs, the creator of the viral programming tool Devin. Even the best code-generating AI today tends to introduce security vulnerabilities and bugs, studies have found, owing to weaknesses in areas like the ability to understand programming logic.

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