Amazon Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development

Today, AWS announces the update of Amazon Q Developer’s software development agent. This new agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on industry benchmark SWTBench Verified (49%) and sits among the top ranking models on SWEBench Verified (66%). The agent has access to tools for planning and reasoning that use the capacity of advanced models to their fullest. By running in a dedicated environment with built-in access to all the functionalities of a modern IDE, the agent is now able to generate multiple candidate solutions for a given problem, select the most promising one, and return higher quality code to the developer.

With this new agent, developers can further accelerate their development team velocity. The update to the agent translates to more reliable suggestions and reduced debugging time for developers. This allows developers to focus on higher-level design and innovation, while the agent handles more routine coding tasks with increased accuracy. The new software development agent for Amazon Q Developer is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q is supported.

Getting started with the software development agent is simple. Developers can begin using it immediately by typing '/dev' in the Q chat window in Visual Studio Code or JetBrains integrated development environment (IDE) where the Amazon Q Developer plugin is installed. To learn more about Amazon Q, visit the Amazon Q product page or refer to the agent documentation.