Yandex Code Assistant

Main article: Neural networks (neural networks)

2024: Code Assistant Introduction

On September 12, 2024, Yandex presented its own assistant for working with code based on neural networks Yandex Code Assistant. With the help of the service, developers will be able to generate the most likely continuation of the code by a fragment of the code. This will help simplify code writing and editing and speed up product development in companies. The assistant tested thousands of Yandex developers, 60% of whom became regular users of the service. Yandex Code Assistant is available for free in on-demand testing mode for a limited number of external developers on the Yandex Cloud cloud platform.

In 95% of cases, the continuation of the code in Yandex Code Assistant is generated within 400 milliseconds, which allows the developer to write code at a comfortable pace when using the service. The service is compatible with popular code editors and supports more than 30 programming languages. In addition, the work of Yandex Code Assistant does not load the resources of local machines.

Yandex has many years of expertise in creating its own tools for developers. It is important for us to provide the market with a product already tested on complex projects inside. Yandex Code Assistant will be part of a platform for creating, deploying and supporting digital products, where we will provide even more tools for specialists, "said Grigory Atrepyev, CPO of the Yandex Cloud cloud platform.

To assess the quality and improve the service, Yandex IT specialists have developed a special metric - user happiness. It takes into account how long the code hint accepted by the developer was, the number of code hints received and rejected, and more. Due to working with this metric, specialists managed to significantly increase the number of developers who regularly use the service.