AI coding assistants shine for boilerplate code, simple functions, documentation, debugging, and other routine tasks. Don’t push them too far.

Learning to code is about a lot more than just programming basics, OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said.

With Q, a developer can keep coding while Q runs off to do “errands.” All fine and interesting. In fact, “everyone’s doing it” these days: GitHub Copilot, Google Codey, ChatGPT, and more.

If coding becomes easier, he argues, we’ll just make more, better software. We’ll use it to solve problems that wouldn’t have been worth the hassle previously, and standards will skyrocket.

To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code.