InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
The Verge

Amazon offers free access to its AI coding assistant to undercut Microsoft

Amazon’s CodeWhisperer generates and suggests code, and now it’s free for individual developers. Amazon’s CodeWhisperer generates and suggests code, and now it’s free for individual developers. is a ...
Reuters

Amazon pushes in-house AI coding tool Kiro over competitors', memo shows

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own, a move to bolster its proprietary Kiro service, which ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...
The New York Times

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber has ...