| Amazon Q Developer Adds Faster Agentic Coding |
| Written by Kay Ewbank |
| Monday, 28 April 2025 |
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Amazon has improved the CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) to provide a faster more interactive coding experience. Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in its CLI environment to provide help on reading and writing files locally, querying AWS resources write code, or automatically debugging issues. Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for software development that can be used from a range of tools including the AWS Management Console, through a new integrated offering with GitLab, and from IDEs.
Amazon Q Developer is available as an extension for JetBrains, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio. In the IDE text editor, it suggests code as you type or write entire functions from a comment you enter. The update means developers can now ask Q Developer to write code, test it, help debug issues, and Q Developer will iteratively make adjustments based on the developer's feedback and approval. The CLI agent provides IDE-style completions for popular CLIs such as git, npm, docker, and aws. As you type commands, Amazon Q suggests relevant options, subcommands, and arguments based on your current context. It supports natural language chat in the terminal for asking questions, debugging, or exploring the codebase. It has contextual awareness, meaning it integrates context from your local development environment, so answers are tailored to your specific code and setup. The new CLI agent can make use of tools installed on the local system including compilers, package managers, and the AWS CLI. It also supports multi-turn conversations allowing dynamic, back-and-forth conversations with the agent. The agentic execution can be used to generate code, edit files, automate Git workflows, and resolve merge conflicts. The enhanced CLI agent is powered by Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, and is available on Amazon Q Developer Free, and Pro tiers and in all AWS regions where Q Developer is available. The updated version of Amazon Q Developer is available now.
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