Augment Code: An AI Coding Tool for ‘Real’ Development Work

I’ve been working in Visual Studio Code with Copilot running, just for the completions. But I’ve found them to be fairly solid — a bit like a junior dev who has an idea what you might want to write next. We know LLMs are able to intuit based on a large sample of examples (we are never quite as unique as we think), but beyond that I have seen plenty of evidence that my digital junior has understood the context of the problem beyond simple pattern matching. While the standard of the code is basic, that actually doesn’t matter. From an…