[R] AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development - Microsoft 2024

Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08299](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08299)

Github includes Code + AutoDev Coder Model: [https://github.com/unit-mesh/auto-dev](https://github.com/unit-mesh/auto-dev)

Abstract:

>The landscape of software development has witnessed a paradigm shift with the advent of AI-powered assistants, exemplified by GitHub Copilot. However, existing solutions are not leveraging all the potential capabilities available in an IDE such as building, testing, executing code, git operations, etc. Therefore, they are constrained by their limited capabilities, primarily focusing on suggesting code snippets and file manipulation within a chat-based interface. To fill this gap, we …

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