“The new offering will help individual developers accelerate their learning and experimentation and thereby enhance productivity and code quality,” said Ritu Jyoti, general manager of research at IDC.
Amalgam Insights’ chief analyst Hyoun Park said that coding at all levels is becoming an AI enhanced process, as tools such as Gemini Code Assist accelerate access to code libraries and cookie-cutter code that is often used in applications.
David Nicholson, chief research officer at The Futurum Group, sees truly enormous potential for services like this: “The free version allows developers to enjoy independence to create what might become the first ‘solocorn’ — a single human entity backed by AI achieving a billion dollar valuation.”