AI coding assistants are deemed limited yet beneficial by developers at the DeveloperWeek conference. While tools like GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and JetBrains AI are praised for speeding up development and offering useful code snippets, concerns persist about their maturity, accuracy, and reliability, particularly in handling complex code scenarios and avoiding “hallucinations.” Attendees believe these tools will improve with time, but users must possess significant technical knowledge to effectively utilize them.
AI Coding Assistants Limited but Helpful, Developers Say
