Amazon has unveiled a major upgrade to developer tooling through the new “Amazon Q Developer” experience, bringing agentic AI capabilities directly into the IDE. It acts as an AI pair programmer that not only autocompletes code but understands context, navigates dependencies, and executes tasks like test generation, bug fixing, and documentation.

Integrated tightly with AWS services and APIs, it dramatically enhances developer productivity and accelerates application development.

This shift signals Amazon’s strong push to compete in the generative AI developer tooling space, aligning with trends toward more autonomous, goal-driven software agents.