Google just made AI coding assistance free for everyone - with very generous limits

ZDNET Writers are persnickety creatures. George R.R. Martin wrote all of the Game of Thrones books using DOS and the WordStar word processor -- both artifacts from the 1980s. But when it comes to fussiness about their tools, writers of words don't hold a candle to writers of code. Also: Brace yourself: The era of 'citizen developers' creating apps is here, thanks to AI We coders are extremely particular about the coding environments and setups we use. Many of us work on codebases with hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of code. A misplaced semicolon or period might be all that stands between working code and legions of users banging down your doors with pitchforks and torches, or, even worse, a marketing guy insisting on shipping your product this quarter. That's where development environments (commonly referred to as IDEs) come into play. There are a whole bunch of them, and each coder has their preferences. Personally, I prefer phpStorm and VS Code, but everyone is differ ... Read full article.