(MIT Technology Review) – Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding.

“That’s something that’s been very exciting for developers,” Jared Kaplan, chief scientist at Anthropic, told MIT Technology Review this month: “It’s really understanding what’s wrong with code, debugging it.”

Copilot, a tool built on top of OpenAI’s large language models and launched by Microsoft-backed GitHub in 2022, is now used by millions of developers around the world. Millions more turn to general-purpose chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google DeepMind’s Gemini for everyday help. (Read More)