We recently shared with you an interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke for Computer Weekly, in which he argued that AI will not replace developers, no matter how quickly it gains popularity in IT circles. And contrary to the plethora of speculation spreading across the Internet and beyond, Dohmke believes that AI would accelerate productivity, but it wouldn’t entirely replace the need for humans.

And because AI can be a powerful weapon in the hands of developers if they know how to use it properly, today we’ve chosen to introduce you to some of the best AI tools, according to Marktech Post, that are currently available to developers.

AI Tools That Can Generate Code to Help Programmers

OpenAI Codex

GitHub Copilot, a tool from GitHub to produce code inside common development environments such as Neovim, VS Code, JetBrains, and even in the cloud with GitHub Codespaces, is powered by OpenAI Codex, a model based on GPT-3. It claims it can write code in at least 12 different languages, including BASH, JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript. The algorithm is trained on trillions of lines of publicly accessible code from places like GitHub repositories.

Tabnine

Although Tabnine is not an end-to-end code generator, it amps up the integrated development environment’s (IDE) auto-completion capability. Jacob Jackson created Tabnine in Rust when he was a student at the University of Waterloo, and it has now grown into a complete AI-based code completion tool.

CodeT5

Researchers at SalesForce created the open-source programming language paradigm known as CodeT5. The T5 (Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer) framework from Google is its foundation. The researchers used approximately 8.35 million instances of code, together with user comments, from openly available GitHub projects to train CodeT5. The bulk of these datasets was obtained from the CodeSearchNet dataset, containing two C and C# datasets from BigQuery, along with Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Python, PHP, and C and C#.

Polycoder

OpenAI’s Codex has a competition in the form of a Polycoder. The model, created by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, is based on OpenAI’s GPT-2, which was trained using a 249 GB codebase developed in 12 different programming languages. The creators of PolyCoder claim that the software can write C more precisely than any other model, including Codex. Polycoder is one of the earliest open-source code-generating models, even if most code generators are not.

Cogram

Cogram is a startup from Berlin’s Y-Combinator incubator that creates code for data scientists and Python programmers using Jupyter Notebooks and SQL queries. English-language queries may be written by data scientists and converted by the tool into sophisticated SQL queries with joins and grouping. It works with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Redshift.

GitHub Copilot

An AI tool called GitHub Copilot may assist you in producing better code. It can create code for you and aid in your comprehension of other people’s code. GPT-3 and OpenAI Codex power Github Copilot.

DeepCode

DeepCode is a code review tool powered by AI that examines your code and makes suggestions for improving it. Code completion, refactoring, and lining are among its many capabilities. For open-source projects, DeepCode is free, while a premium membership is available for private enterprises.

Kite

For Python, Kite is a free AI-powered code completion tool. You will get real-time code completions thanks to machine learning. For a fee, Kite also provides access to premium services, including sophisticated code analysis and refactoring tools. Kite stands out from the competitors since it supports more than 16 languages and 16 code editors. The regular updates to Kite make this machine-learning code aid more dependable and economical than the competition.

TabNine

An AI-powered code completion application called TabNine employs deep learning to offer possible code completions. This is accomplished by taking a piece of code and then offering comparable bits of code that may be used for the same issue. In addition to supporting more than 50 programming languages, TabNine is free.

CodeWP

The WordPress code generator CodeWP was created by Isotropic, which is who we are. This platform offers JS and PHP support and settings tailored to well-known plugins like WooCommerce and major page builders. It is particularly designed and optimized for those who construct WordPress websites.

Wing Pro

This editor examines static and dynamic code to provide excellent, context-relevant recommendations. Additionally, it offers you a better editing experience with a clever error-checking tool. The editor’s auto-completion functionality and built-in Python shells are both available. This tool includes a Source Assistant that constantly updates to provide inline documentation, type information, and call suggestions. As you code, it also automatically inputs function and method parameters. Wing Pro also allows you to browse the invocation and appropriately put your parameters.