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TechCrunch Minute: Google’s Gemini Code Assist wants to use AI to help developers
https://youtu.be/WSba5tVuZTs Can AI eat the jobs of the developers who are busy building AI models? The short answer is no, but the longer answer is not
Startups are in the fight as well, though they tend to focus more tailored solutions than the broader offerings from the largest tech companies; Pythagora, Tusk, and Ellipsis from the most recent Y Combinator batch are working on app creation from user prompts, AI agents for bug-squashing, and turning GitHub comments into code, respectively. And if a company can spend less money and employ fewer people, it will; no job is safe, some roles are just more difficult to replace at any given moment. Thankfully, given the complexities of modern software services, ever-present tech debt, and an infinite number of edge cases, what big tech and startups are busy building today seem to be very useful coding helps and not something ready to replace or even reduce the number of humans building them.
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