Sorry DEVIN, Microsoft’s AI SWE is coming for ya!!!
AI Summary
Summary: Microsoft’s New AI-Driven Development Project
- Project Overview:
- Microsoft is developing a new AI-driven software development framework called Auto Dev.
- Auto Dev aims to automate AI-driven development tasks within an IDE, leveraging GPT-4.
- It is designed to perform tasks like code building, testing, executing, and Git operations.
- Capabilities:
- Auto Dev can handle complex software engineering tasks autonomously.
- Users define objectives, which are executed by Auto Dev’s AI agents.
- The system can edit files, run test cases, and fix errors autonomously.
- Security Concerns:
- Auto Dev promises a secure development environment using Docker to contain execution.
- Workflow:
- User defines objectives and rules, which are processed by a conversation manager.
- The conversation manager interacts with a parser and tools library to execute tasks.
- Tasks are executed in a secure evaluation environment, with results returned to the user.
- Performance:
- Auto Dev’s performance in code and test generation is compared to human benchmarks.
- It scores 91.5 in code generation without extra training, outperforming GPT-4.
- In test generation, Auto Dev achieves 88.8% coverage, close to human performance at 99.4%.
- Tool Integration:
- Microsoft envisions integrating Auto Dev with IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and PR review platforms.
- The integration could provide Microsoft with a competitive edge in development tools.
- Conclusion:
- Developers are showing interest in Auto Dev.
- Microsoft aims to create a fully automated AI software engineer.
- Next Steps:
- Microsoft may integrate Auto Dev into Visual Studio Code or GitHub as a paid feature.
- The company has not yet used the SWE Benchmark by Deon for comparison.