Review: CodeWhisperer, Bard, and Copilot X

When I wrote about the GitHub Copilot preview in 2021, I noted that the AI pair programmer didn't always generate good, correct, or even running code, but was still somewhat useful. At the time, I concluded that future versions could be real time-savers. Two years later, Copilot is improving. These days, it costs money even for individuals, and it has some competition. In addition, the scope of coding assistants has expanded beyond code generation to code explanations, pull request …