Google Developing Software AI Agent 6
An anonymous reader shares a report: After weeks of news about Google's antitrust travails, the tech giant will try to reset the narrative next week by highlighting advances it is making in artificial intelligence, cloud and Android technology at its annual I/O developer conference.
Ahead of I/O, Google has been demonstrating to employees and outside developers an array of different products, including an AI agent for software development. Known internally as a "software development lifecycle agent," it is intended to help software engineers navigate every stage of the software process, from responding to tasks to documenting code, according to three people who have seen demonstrations of the product or been told about it by Google employees. Google employees have described it as an always-on coworker that can help identify bugs to fix or flag security vulnerabilities, one of the people said, although it's not clear how close it is to being released.
Ahead of I/O, Google has been demonstrating to employees and outside developers an array of different products, including an AI agent for software development. Known internally as a "software development lifecycle agent," it is intended to help software engineers navigate every stage of the software process, from responding to tasks to documenting code, according to three people who have seen demonstrations of the product or been told about it by Google employees. Google employees have described it as an always-on coworker that can help identify bugs to fix or flag security vulnerabilities, one of the people said, although it's not clear how close it is to being released.
Paywalled (Score:3)
It's behind a show-you-nothing paywall, so no thanks.
I was curious if it was actually every step of the software lifecycle, or if it was only conception through release, like so many developers think as "lifecycle". Is maintenance (aka the Gen X of software lifecycles) handled? Alas nothing to read without giving up either money or data.
Soon to be featured on... (Score:3)
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Here's the thing. Google isn't really a software development tools company. The one exception is Android development. So if that's your thing, fine, this tool will probably stick around and be helpful to you. But if you develop for other platforms, Google might not be the most reliable system for you.
Google AI already cross platform (Score:2)
https://killedbygoogle.com/ [killedbygoogle.com]
Here's the thing. Google isn't really a software development tools company. The one exception is Android development. So if that's your thing, fine, this tool will probably stick around and be helpful to you. But if you develop for other platforms, Google might not be the most reliable system for you.
Google's AI is already cross platform. Describe a user interface layout verbally. Groups. Relative locations. Buttons. Text Fields. Drop downs. Segments, Etc.
Now ask for the user interface code for whatever platform in whatever language.
In general its not terribly different than using a GUI based layout tool that generates boilerplate implementation code. Except the input is text based rather than graphical objects. And the output can be various platforms or languages.
Similar story if you ask for a
Re: (Score:3)
I'm aware of all this. The AI is good at what it does. Many products that Google killed, were good at what they did. Google killed them anyway, because they weren't directly enough related to its core mission: selling advertising.
Re: (Score:2)
It's difficult to see how code generation tools support the advertising mission.
For general chat with the public, an AI can inject a wide range of ads into the conversation every few hundred tokens, similar to what people do in YouTube videos and podcasts.
For Software code completion, the ads can't obviously be injected into the stream directly. I suppose it might be possible to inject calls to functions implemented in premium software libraries, with a button to buy access on the spot. That might work
Agent Smith? (Score:2)
You betcha.