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Google unveils Gemini Code Assist and I'm cautiously optimistic it will help programmers


Announced at Google Next '24, Gemini Code Assist promises to simplify developers' lives. But can it live up to its promise?

Most programmers can't remember all the details and the interfaces we use change often, so we spend a tremendous amount of time looking stuff up on the web. Since an AI token is roughly a word, that meant my "entire codebase" -- written by one dude, part time, nights and weekends -- was more than double the capacity of Google's new hotness. As part of the announcement today, Google said it's expanding its data and knowledge sources for Gemini Code Assist through partnerships, which include Datadog, Datastax, Elastic, HashiCorp, Neo4j, Pinecone, Redis, Singlestore, Snyk, and Stack Overflow.

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