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The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I)

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With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity. The winner of this war will command the wallet share of nearly 30 million software developers worldwide, and more importantly, generate hundreds of billions of dollars of aggregate revenue (assuming a percentage of developers get automated). In Part I of this post, I explore the following: Learnings from the last-generation of code-editor wars How to categorize the current contenders in the AI-code generation landscape What developing without a copilot or AI agent looks like An in-depth look at the current state of AI coding copilots, specifically focusing on Codeium, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot Which platform is best positioned to “win” the copilot wars? Part I will focus primarily on AI copilots, while Part II will be a deep dive on coding agents. This post is a bit m

The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I) Kevin Zhang Nov 12, 2024 25 6 2 Share With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity. The winner of this war will command the wallet share of nearly 30 million software developers worldwide, and more importantly, generate hundreds of billions of dollars of aggregate revenue (assuming a percentage of developers get automated). In Part I of this post, I explore the follo

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