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AI teammates are entering the company, and Tencent Cloud wants to reconstruct the next generation R&D workflow
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Source: zhidx.com
Smart Stuff Author | Chen Junda Editor | Mo Ying For many programmers, this scenario is familiar: a red error message pops up on the terminal, copy the log, paste it to the AI assistant, wait for analysis, and then paste the repair plan back to the terminal for running... If the problem is not solved at once, the next cycle will begin. This is a real experience that many users of Vibe Coding face every day. In the past few years, the capabilities of AI programming tools have rapidly evolved, and development efficiency has continued to improve. But at the same time, a new contradiction gradually emerged: developers are becoming more and more like its "nanny", being nailed to the computer throughout the process and manually transporting context. The reason is that these AI programming tools are always outside the research and development process and separated from the development team. It can write code, but it cannot take over a task and complete the complete link from investigation to delivery like a real team member. Recently, Tencent Cloud officially released the cloud intelligent agent CodeBuddy NPC in an attempt to provide solutions to the above problems. Developers only need to @ the NPC on the cloud development platform and assign tasks like @ a team member. The NPC can independently complete problem investigation, plan formulation, code development and PR submission, and continue to repair based on the CI results until acceptable results are delivered. CodeBuddy NPC is the first product in the industry to propose and implement the AI Native Git paradigm. Behind this is Tencent Cloud's technological philosophy of continuous evolution from CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy to CodeBuddy NPC: integrating AI into real workflows. Before the release, Zhidongxi had in-depth exchanges with Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy, CNB product manager Huang Youkun, CNB operations manager Wang Chunyu, and CNB senior engineer Xu Yi, trying to restore the technical logic and industry judgment behind this product. 1. From assisting to taking the lead, what can CodeBuddy NPC do? In Wang Chunyu’s view, the evolution of AI’s role in the R&D field can be divided into three stages: The first stage is AI-assisted R&D, where people are still the leader, and AI only does code supplementation.