Last week MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria likened present-day AI to the “dial-up phase of the internet era.” He’s not wrong. I recently suggested we’re in the “awkward toddler phase” of generative AI (genAI). It’s full of excitement (“her first step!”), but straightforward tasks are clumsy, like basic math. Yet in some areas, the future of generative AI is happening right now. One area is coding assistants such as Amazon CodeWhisperer.