Envisioning the Next-Generation AI Coding Assistants: Insights & Proposals

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.14592
• Publication Date: 2024-03-21
• Authors: Khanh Nghiem; Anh Minh Nguyen; Nghi D. Q. Bui
• Keywords: Software Engineering (cs.SE); FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Science - Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction; Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

As a research-product hybrid group in AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE), we present four key takeaways from our experience developing in-IDE coding assistants. assistants should set clear expectations usage, integrate with advanced IDE capabilities and existing extensions, use extendable backend designs, collect app data responsibly downstream analyses. We propose open questions challenges that academia industry address to realize the vision of next-generation