Developer Tools
3 milestones in AI history
GitHub Copilot: AI Writes Code
GitHub launched Copilot as a technical preview — an AI pair programmer powered by OpenAI Codex that could autocomplete entire functions, write boilerplate, and suggest code from natural language comments. It was trained on billions of lines of public code.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: A Leading Coding Model
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet emerged as one of the strongest widely used models for coding tasks, with developers praising its code generation, debugging, and software engineering capabilities. It powered tools like Claude Code, enabling AI to work directly inside developer environments.
AI Coding Agents Transform Software Development
AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot's agentic workflows, and OpenClaw-linked remote coding loops pushed beyond autocomplete into delegated engineering work. These systems could inspect repositories, run tests, edit files, use terminals and browsers, and iterate on tasks over multiple turns.