Microsoft wants to make it easier to build AI apps with its new developer tool

Microsoft has launched several new AI-powered tools designed to improve the developer experience, as well as the brand new GitHub Copilot for Azure, a coding assistant that will be embedded in popular development environments such as Visual Studio Code.

Amanda Silver, CVP of Product for Microsoft’s Developer Division, said in an interview with Venture Beat that developers are faced with a growing number of tools that lead to ‘cognitive overload’, hence the introduction of what should hopefully be a simpler process.