IBM Granite.Code offers developers a powerful AI coding companion in a single, lightweight extension. This companion is built to work with IBM's cutting-edge Granite Large Language Model (LLM) for code and is available at no charge for individual developers. IBM Granite.Code provides robust, context-aware AI support directly in the developer's environment.
Features and benefits of IBM Granite.Code
As a transformative tool for developers, IBM Granite.Code features comprehensive programming language support powered by IBM's Granite 8b code LLM with a context window size of 128K and trained on 116 languages, including Go, C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and more. With a flexible self-hosting option, developers can deploy the Granite LLM on their own workstation using Ollama, allowing for greater control and flexibility.
Granite.Code empowers developers by accelerating software development tasks with AI-powered capabilities, including context-aware code generation, explanation, documentation, translation, and unit test generation. Seamlessly integrated with the popular Visual Studio Code development environment, Granite.Code offers real-time code assistance with its integrated chat interface and intelligent code completions in the code editor. Developers benefit from instant feedback, error detection, and improvements, with support for single-line, multi-line, and comment-to-code completions, making it an essential tool for optimizing coding workflows.
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