Gemini Code Assist is an enterprise-focused AI code completion and assistance tool.
It acts as a competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise.
You can use this to generate unit tests, write functions, and even create a class.
Google just hosted its Cloud Next conference. During the conference, Google made some big announcements, one of these was the unveiling of the Gemini Code Assist. This is an enterprise-focused AI code completion and assistance tool. Google previously provided us with a similar service on its Duet AI. Now, Code Assist is a more upgraded and rebranded version of this service.
Gemini Code Assist acts as a competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise. Google also has an upper hand here because its Gemini 1.5 Pro offers a million-token context window. This means that it will be able to provide a larger context when compared to its competitors.
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How to use Gemini Code Assist?
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Using this AI tool is as simple as using any other AI chatbot. You can use this to generate unit tests, write functions, and even create a class. You simply have to type in a prompt and AI will generate the text for you. For eg: If you wish to generate a function that checks if a year is a leap year or not, you can give this prompt- “Write a function that checks if a year is a leap year.” And even if you have an incomplete code that you are stuck with, you can ask it to complete it for you. Just like ChatGPT gives you a text response, this will give you a code. Easy right?
If you wish to access Code Assist, it will be available through plug-ins for editors like VS Code and JetBrains.
Brad Calder, Google’s VP, and GM for its cloud platform and technical infrastructure, said, “This upgrade brings a massive 1 million-token context window, which is the largest in the industry. This allows customers to perform large-scale changes across your entire code base, enabling AI-assisted code transformations that were not possible before.”
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