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Discussion on: AI is changing everything in software development: Top 3 🔥 AI coding assistants

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Karsten Biedermann

What is the experience with Amazon Q like? Seems like a marginal phenomenon...

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Sebastian Fritsch

Well there is a lot of competition, but I like the terminal integration to get Intellisense like suggestions for your folder structure

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Karsten Biedermann

That's true. But in the case of Amazon Q, it seems more like Amazon is just trying to jump on the bandwagon and participate a little. OpenAI's LLM was initially trained for text and generating programming code, and that was at least 4-5 years ago. So, ChatGPT has a clear head start, in my opinion, which is noticeable in the quality of the code output. By the way, you can also use Cursor AI in the terminal: cursor.com/features. Similarly, GitHub Copilot: docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-g....