Augment’s AI assistant wants to help companies write code faster and more painlessly

Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, aims to increase the efficiency of programmers and their teams by providing fast and accurate code suggestions. Unlike competitors like Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, Augment Code is designed to be quicker and more tailored to a company's specific codebase, requiring less tweaking of generated code. It can also answer detailed questions about a company's code, helping new hires and senior developers alike. Augment Code integrates with popular development environments and costs $60 per active developer per month. The tool uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to offer suggestions and answers, staying in sync with code updates without needing retraining. It promotes code reuse and reduces the risk of intellectual property leaks. Augment Code helps developers work faster and more accurately, potentially leading to less burnout and faster project turnaround times. One customer, Codem, has seen project completion times drop from two to three months to just six weeks with Augment. Augment uses its own AI internally to develop software and aims to increase software development efficiency, benefiting both developers and the general public.