Companies competing in Coding copilots
| company | description | stage |
|---|---|---|
| Codeium | Coding copilot. | private (series C) |
| Cursor | LLM copilot-based code editor. | private (series A) |
| GitHub | Source control and deployment automation. | acquired |
| Qodo | LLM-based code generation. | private (series A) |
| Sourcegraph | Source code search. | private (series D) |
| Supermaven | Coding copilot. | acquired |
| Tabnine | AI code assistant. | acquired |
Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used by software developers to generate and update code. An LLM-based coding copilot provide code completion or fully generate code from a description. Although coding copilots are a new tool without significant quantitative metrics on their performance, the hope is that they can save time and reduce errors, and allow developers to focus on higher-level tasks.
LLMs are also used for automated debugging, code review, and documentation generation. Additionally, LLMs can be used to generate high-quality documentation for projects.