I don't want to mislead anyone. Copilot's thing it was the biggest disappointment of the month, and perhaps of the year or much longer. The extension makes life easier for developers or students, and it does so thanks to the fact that we have trained it ourselves. But the news of general availability of payment also left us with the feeling that competition would come out, and it has not taken long for a new actor to arrive in the cast: codewhisperer.
Behind Copilot is the same company that offers the most used desktop operating system in the world, that is, a technological giant. Behind CodeWhisperer there is another giant, in this case Amazon. As we read in this presentation article, explain that the “code whisperer” will propose what we want based on the written code and comments, just as Copilot and Tabnine already do (which we will talk about in a future article).
CodeWhisperer starts with waiting list
They do not put much emphasis on how it works, that is, they do explain that it is with "machine learning", but they don't make it as clear as GitHub, which openly said that it was looking at free repositories (and it has even been shown that private ones) and used Copilot's own telemetry to learn how to create entire functions and thus be able to better assist us. In the end, if the suggestions are good, I don't think Amazon's way of improving software is any worse than what GitHub has used.
Right now, CodeWhisperer is in its infancy, and only supports Python, Java, and JavaScript. It cannot be installed unless it is our turn, since it is in waiting list. To get into it, we have to fill in the fields of this link, and when we do, they will tell us that they will notify us by mail for the next step. The downside is that they do not send a verification email to confirm that we have signed up for the list, but good.
In the end, the only thing that seems certain is that there will be some company that offers something halfway decent in its basic version, or so I hope. tabnine, which we have already said that we will talk about later, can do the same as Copilot if we pay, or fill semi-full lines in its basic plan. So welcome CodeWhisperer. We wish you the best (for your own good).