Harness releases generative AI assistant to help increase developer efficiency

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The Developer’s New Best Friend: AIDA

In the world of tech, where software is eating the world, the cooks – the developers, are in short supply. Enter Harness, a tech firm that has been laser-focused on crafting tools for developers to enhance their productivity in the software development lifecycle since its inception five years ago.

Harness and Machine Learning: A Perfect Match

Harness has been dabbling in machine learning, identifying and refining areas in the development process that could benefit from a bit of AI. Today, they’ve pulled the wraps off their latest creation – the AI Development Assistant, affectionately known as AIDA.

Harness CEO on Generative AI

Harness CEO, Jyoti Bansal, seems to view AIDA as the fruit of years of labor in the fields of AI and DevOps, CI/CD, and deployment verification. He’s got companies hooked on the idea of AI-generated code, but Bansal isn’t stopping there. He sees a whole universe of use cases that could supercharge developer productivity by up to 30%-50%.

Transforming the Software Development Lifecycle

The software development lifecycle is more than just writing and building code. It’s about ensuring security and reliability, deploying and verifying changes, and keeping an eye on the costs. This is where Bansal is aiming to embed generative AI, transforming each step of the software development lifecycle to maximize productivity and efficiency.

AIDA: The AI Assistant in Its Infancy

Harness’s AI assistant is in its infancy, but it’s already stepping up to the plate, offering automatic resolution of build and deployment failures. As developers tweak and tinker, the ripple effects can disrupt everything from an AWS account to a Kubernetes cluster. AIDA is designed to diagnose these failures and propose solutions, leaving the final call to the developers.

AIDA’s Capabilities: Beyond Just Code Generation

AIDA’s got more tricks up its sleeve, from patching security vulnerabilities to optimizing cloud costs – all with the approval of the human operator. And make no mistake, Harness is not trying to replace developers. They are about augmenting the development process and making developers more efficient – to the tune of 30%, 40% or even 50%, according to Bansal.

Source: techcrunch.com