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Executive Summary
New stuff that might be worth investigating
Worth investigating on a limited basis
https://github.com/features/copilot - Continue passive investigation as part of my 60-day free trial while working on normal sprint tasks. Seems most useful as a sophisticated auto-complete to reduce copy-pasting.
https://openai.com/product/gpt-4 (ChatGPT) - Good at describing copy-pasted code. Might be useful for unit testing simple functions, but inadequate for anything complex. Inability to follow links to code limits its usefulness.
Investigation blocked
https://www.codiga.io/ - Requires org-level GitHub permissions to install, even if I’m only installing on repositories that I have admin access over. Currently waiting on IT to respond to install request.https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/ - CodeGuru attempts to connect to the wrong fork of our repo. Blocked waiting for AWS Support to respond.
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https://www.diffblue.com/products/ - ChatGPT does a better job. However, DiffBlue has the advantage in that it runs as an IDE plugin. Might be worth looking into again in 2024 or 2025 as technology improves.
https://codeball.ai/ - Appears to be a dead project.
https://www.codiga.io/ - Codiga is being shut down and its future is undetermined.
Code Generation
OpenAI
OpenAI is best known for their product ChatGPT. However, they have models that can be used for code generation. See https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/code . Initial investigations into OpenAI were underwhelming. The better of the two models (code-davinci-002) was frequently under load and unavailable, so I did my investigations with the lesser of the two models (code-cushman-001, described as “almost as capable as code-davinci-002, but slightly faster”).
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