AI Tools for developers

The recent evolution of LLMs (large language models) like ChatGPT has been blowing my mind. Who would've thought only a few years ago that we would soon have intelligent machines that can generate text, code, images, and creative ideas like humans? In this post, I want to talk about a few AI tools that I use regularly as a developer. These tools help me tremendously in my day-to-day work and have improved my developer experience and general life quality. Maybe you will consider using some of them yourself! Table of Contents GitHub Copilot Cursor.sh Microsoft Designer ChatGPT Smart Diary GitHub Copilot I'm sure you already know GitHub Copilot, the VS Code extension that brings ChatGPT right into your IDE. It can read your code, find and fix bugs, throw ideas back and forth with you, generate boilerplate code, write tests, and more. Copilot helps me save a ton of time and also makes coding more fun. Often, it prevents me from writing bugs by suggesting the correct code before I even start writing something wrong. It doesn't write a whole app for you, but it can greatly help you with some code snippets and repetitive boilerplate code. But Copilot isn't just a simple autocompletion tool; it intelligently takes your other code into account and creates suggestions that are very contextual and often exactly what you need. The $10-a-month subscription fee is more than worth the tool. I would gladly pay $50 if I had to. Ten bucks should be affordable for most of you, no matter what country you're from. If you've been unsure if you should invest in a Copilot subscription—do it. It pays you back 100x in saved time and mental energy. Some students can even get Copilot (plus additional perks) for free via the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Check it out to see if you're eligible. Cursor.sh Cursor is a fork of VS Code with an even tighter ChatGPT integration. While GitHub Copilot is trained on open-source code, Cursor can also index and search through documentation. When you have a question about, let's say, Amazon S3, you can tell it to search through the Amazon S3 documentation and answer your question based on it. It can crawl and index any documentation web page you want.