| Can AI help coders build more AI? That's part of what Deepak Singh, VP of Next Gen Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services, is tasked with figuring out. The longtime Amazon exec was appointed head of a newly formed team last year that's focused on building generative AI tools that aim to help developers better build products on top of Amazon's cloud. In 2023 alone, he oversaw the rollout of tools like Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding assistant; parts of Amazon Q, an enterprise-focused chatbot; and PartyRock, a "playground" for building AI apps on Amazon's Bedrock platform with no coding needed. "Our mission at a high level [is] how do we change how customers build applications, and more specifically, How do they build and run those applications within AWS?" Singh said. These efforts come as Amazon works to keep up with Big Tech peers like Microsoft and Google in the AI arms race. Amazon's CodeWhisperer is in direct competition with Microsoft's Github Copilot, and AWS and Microsoft Azure are both trying to lure AI developers to their respective clouds. Tech Brew spoke with Singh about his team's strategy, the state of the AI race, and the future of AI-powered coding. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. What have you learned since rolling out tools like CodeWhisperer about how AI can help developers? What I'm seeing is most organizations start rolling it out in two ways: They either roll it out gradually—they start with one team and one team is successful, and they'll start opening it up to other teams—or they roll it out to the whole org, and say, "Try it out. We'll see where we end up," because it's so early. And I think different orgs have different skill sets and different cultures, and how they roll it out and use it varies. [British Telecom] is a good example. They made it broadly available, and a good set of software developers started using it in less than four months. I think they'd written over 100,000 lines of code. And I think they had good acceptance rates, but I think what was useful was they were able to automate 10%–12% of things that they weren't able to do before…And that's typically what we see…I like using this metaphor of swimming pools. You go to any swimming pool complex, there's usually three pools: a children's pool, a regular pool that goes shallow to deep, and then there's a swim team Olympics pool. Most of our customers are trying to figure out how to go from the children's pool to the regular pool. A bunch are in the regular pool and are going into the deep end over the last year…And then there are some that go, "You know what? This thing is going to be transformational. We are going to make organizational changes and go right into the Olympic pool…What I really see people doing with things like CodeWhisperer is getting really strong at swimming laps and really understanding how these tools can help them, and using them while recognizing that they're constantly proving and really quickly. Keep reading here.—PK | 
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