Developers set the pace for genAI tools adoption

The increasingly weird interactions between everyday people and ChatGPT may make more headlines, but developers are setting the pace for AI’s future. Whether it’s coding assistants auditioning (sometimes erratically) as copilots, development platforms vying to offer the smoothest AI-driven developer experience, or tech giants like Oracle and Microsoft angling for developer loyalty, our picks this month highlight some of the biggest battles in genAI today—all aiming to win the hearts and minds of builders.

Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld

What the AI coding assistants get right, and where they go wrongThink of AI coding assistants as bright but distractable interns: they can be very helpful, but they also have serious quirks. Here’s a look at the best and worst of six leading AI copilots.

The AI platform wars will be won on the developer experienceWhoever makes building AI into applications a seamless developer experience will win a big piece of the future. Right now, Microsoft appears to be leading the pack, almost by accident.

The key to Oracle’s AI futureAs the database of choice for a huge swath of enterprises, Oracle is in a unique position to provide the data support big companies crave for their AI projects. But will developers get on board?

9 APIs you’ll love for AI integration and automated workflowsAPIs have long offered developers access to data and functionality from a variety of sources. Now, a new crop of APIs is connecting apps to AI integrations.

GenAI news bites

New AI tool targets critical hole in thousands of open source apps

AI is powering enterprise development, GitHub says

Snowflake’s Cortex AISQL aims to simplify unstructured data analysis

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Are genAI shortcuts making attackers easier to catch?There’s been much ado about the next generation of developers relying on AI rather than learning comp-sci fundamentals. Now it appears the next generation of cybercriminals is making the same mistake.

Reddit releases new ‘Community Intelligence’ ad toolsReddit’s very human peer-to-peer discussions provide a broad pool of data used to train many prominent AI tools. Now, the company is offering AI-driven insights to advertisers based on user-generated content.

Exposed developer secrets are a big problem, and AI is making them worseLeaving plaintext passwords or SSH keys in human-readable code is a hallmark of inexperienced or overworked developers. But a recent report found that repos integrated with an AI copilot were 40% more likely to contain leaked secrets than those without.