Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing

Google on Tuesday announced Project IDX, an AI-infused cloud-based integrated development environment. This super IDE "is a browser-based development experience built on Google Cloud and powered by Codey, a foundational AI model trained on code and built on PaLM 2," wrote five Googlers who worked on the project in an …

[Anonymous Coward]

E2E for RCS ?

Have Google not got the UKs memo ? That's now illegal in blighty.

[Steve Davies 3]

Re: That's now illegal in blighty.

Google won't care. They will have more than enough dirt on all of the Tory and Labor front benches to guarantee that they Google remain above the law. Following the law is for plebs.

[abend0c4]

A browser-based development experience

I'm not a huge fan of these and even VS code (which is, effectively, a browser-based solution at its heart) I find rather clunky. If we're going to use an interface model that's based on pointing and clicking, couldn't we at least move away from using a text-based paradigm for programming and have something a bit more, well, genuinely visual?

And I can't say I've often felt the need of coding assistance, except in the case of poor or absent documentation: an area in which I have found Google to be a particular culprit, particularly as their offerings shift towards inevitable abandonment.

[martinusher]

Re: A browser-based development experience

I never cease to be amazed at how disorganized and buggy web based coding is. This tool seems to belong to the 'pile it high, chuck it out and let the user cope' school of software development.

[JT_3K]

Fantastic. I can't wait for them to abandon this too.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[Sleep deprived]

AI-based error-prone coding tool

Google must have beta-tested it on Gmail, Gboard and Maps for Android...