There's a nice code gpt plugin for intellij and vs code. Basically you can select some code and ask it to criticize it, refactor it, optimize it, find bugs in i

There's a nice code gpt plugin for intellij and vs code. Basically you can select some code and ask it to criticize it, refactor it, optimize it, find bugs in it, document it, explain it, etc. A larger context means that you can potentially fit your entire code base in that. Most people struggle to keep the details in their head of even a small code base. The next level would be deeper integration with tools to ensure that whatever it changes, the tests still have to pass and the code still has to compile. Speaking of tests, writing those is another thing it can do. So, AI assisted salvaging of legacy code bases that would otherwise not be economical to deal with could become a thing. What we can expect over the next years is a lot more AI assisted developer productivity. IMHO it will perform better on statically typed languages as those are simply easier to reason about for tools.