(Yicai) May 22 — Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has revealed that it is considering carrying out workflow changes, as 85 percent of its programmers use its artificial intelligence coding assistant CodeBuddy.
“AI code assistants clearly boost individual efficiency, but the ultimate goal is organizational efficiency,” Wu Yunsheng, vice president of Tencent Cloud, told Yicai at the Tencent Cloud AI Industry Application Summit yesterday. “We are indeed considering whether the organization needs to make moves due to changes in individual productivity or development models.”
Tencent released an upgraded version of CodeBuddy in April, introducing a new software development agent called Craft, which allows the AI coding assistant to develop autonomous development capabilities.
CodeBuddy reduces overall coding time by 40 percent, Tencent said at the summit yesterday. The proportion of AI-generated code in the company’s codebase has increased significantly, Wu noted, adding that his team also uses AI coding assistant tools now.
Tencent is not the only Chinese tech giant that has launched and adopted AI coding assistants. JD.Com released JoyAgent 2.0 earlier this month, which helps businesses create professional digital employees. Its intelligent coding assistant JoyCode has achieved a code adoption rate of over 40 percent, according to a representative from JD Cloud.
In March, Chinese large language model developer Zhipu AI launched its AI agent AutoGLM Rumination, which combines inference and search capabilities. AutoGLM Rumination once opened an account on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, gaining 5,000 followers in only 14 days.
AI agents are still evolving, and for complex tool interactions involving dozens of steps, the accuracy rate is expected to reach 90 percent, making the technology commercially viable as early as this year, an AI agent developer told Yicai.
Editor: Futura Costaglione