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Generative AI has opened the floodgates to so many new innovations and AI tools. From AI image generation?to AI coding assistants, there is so much to unpack, and we are still learning about new applications day after day. In this article, we’re going to specifically talk about AI coding tools that can help you with software development. You can use the AI coding tools listed below to generate code, fix bugs, explain code snippets, write unit tests, and much more. On that note, let’s go through the list.

1. GitHub Copilot X

If you are a developer and looking for the best AI coding tool, I highly recommend GitHub Copilot X. It’s an AI assistant that can help you with?code completion, code explanation, debugging, and more. GitHub Copilot X is powered by the? GPT-4 model, which is arguably one of the best general-purpose AI models out there. It’s even better than the purpose-built OpenAI Codex model, a descendant of the GPT-3 series.

Coming to features, GitHub Copilot X is intended to be your helpful AI pair rather than your replacement. It can integrate with every part of your workflow, offer contextual suggestions,?fix a piece of code, translate code, write unit tests, and much more. You don’t even need to read the whole documentation. Copilot X can give personalized answers to your queries from the documentation.

2. CodeGPT

If you use VS Code extensively for programming, then you can take a look at CodeGPT. It’s a?third-party extension?developed by Daniel San for VS Code. You can add your own API key to access ChatGPT models, including GPT-4 in CodeGPT, and start using the extension in your codebase. It supports 16 programming languages and other than OpenAI’s ChatGPT models, you can also add API keys from other AI services such as?Cohere, Anthropic, AI21 Labs, HuggingFace, etc. If you have not got access to Copilot X, you should very well check out CodeGPT.

3. Codey and Studio Bot by Google

In case you are unaware, Google has also entered?the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot. You can use Codey, a coding AI assistant on Google Colab. It’s similar to GitHub Copilot X and offers in-line code suggestions, code generation, autocomplete, debugging, and much more. That said, the feature is not live for everyone yet and only users in the US can get the first access.

Codey is built on Google's PaLM 2 model?and supports only Python as of now. You can open Google Colab, launch a notebook, and?check if a “Generate” button?appears?on top. The best part is that it’s free to use, however, paid Colab users will be first in line to get access.

4. Replit Ghostwriter

Replit has also announced its AI coding tool named Ghostwriter. It’s backed by their in-house large language model, which is trained on publicly available code and further tuned by Replit. It?supports code completion, code generation, transformation, enhancement, explanation, chat, debugging, and more. According to Replit, it factors in the context of your project and gives a relevant response. It can also automatically detect issues in your code and suggest a fix.

The best part is that Replit supports a?growing list of 16 programming languages, including Bash, C, C#, C++, CSS, Go, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and more. You can dive into an unfamiliar codebase and get started with different frameworks, APIs, and languages using this tool.

5. Amazon CodeWhisperer

In the AI race, Amazon is not far behind and bringing powerful large language models for specific use cases. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a coding-specific LLM that can help you with programming in multiple languages. According to Amazon, CodeWhisperer has been?trained on billions of lines of code, and it can generate in-line code similar to Copilot X. You can simply write a comment, and it can generate complete functions based on your existing code.

It also has the ability to identify code that resembles open-source training code, allowing you to further tag the code and attribute it with a license. CodeWhisperer comes with built-in code security as well. It can scan and analyze your code to?find vulnerabilities?and loopholes so you can fix them immediately.

There are other interesting tools that don’t quite as far as those three solutions. WordPress developers might find CodeWP.ai?a helpful way to create and store code snippets to boost their sites. AI Helper Bot?is great for those new to SQL who want to chat with their databases to mine the data within.?All in all, AI is changing the way we write code. It’s already creating massive efficiencies for individual developers and teams across tech stacks and programming languages.