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AI coding will unlock the next wave of developer productivity and reshape the software supply chain | Insight Partners

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AI coding tools will improve over time, ushering in a new wave of productivity gains for developers. Slowly but surely, value will “shift left” to AI coding tools as security, ops, and testing issues covered by downstream tooling are avoided altogether because AI considers these things as it generates code. It seems like overnight, every developer has an AI-powered pair programmer in their pocket. Sourcegraph (an Insight portfolio company) found that 95% of software developers use AI tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Cody (Sourcegraph’s AI code assistant). Now we have an emerging landscape of AI coding tools: There are lots of new tools out there that use AI to help with coding. They can be plug-ins for coding programs, or tools for searching and migrating code, and even agents that automate workflows. These tools are changing the game by taking on tasks that used to be done by humans typing code manually. AI coding tools can’t perfectly guess what a developer is thinking. Well,

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