Intro
Until now, I was looking for the best AI code assist.
🧠🤖AI code assistant 3 (fast and safe (Cursor))
https://dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/ai-code-assistant-3-fast-and-safe-cursor-38gm
🧠🤖AI code assistant 2 (free and fast (Codeium + VSCode))
https://dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/ai-code-assistant-2-free-and-fast-codeium-vscode-c7p
🧠🤖AI code assistant 1 (free and safe (Continue + VSCode + Ollama + DeepSeek-R1))
https://dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/ai-code-assistant-for-free-and-safe-continue-vscode-ollama-deepseek-r1-5eg8
Another new AI code assistant just started public preview on February 25.🚀
It is Gemini Code Assist for individual.
So let's take a closer look at it.
What is Gemini Code Assist
Gemini Code Assist offers AI-powered assistance of Gemini 2.0 to help you throughout the software development lifecycle at no cost.🆓
You can use Gemini Code Assist in your IDE (such as VS Code and JetBrains IDEs (like IntelliJ and PyCharm)) in many programming languages.
Gemini Code Assist can complete codes, generate codes, help with debugging and more.
limits are 6,000 code-related requests and 240 chat requests daily.
https://codeassist.google/
How to use Gemini Code Assist
1️⃣ Install the Gemini Code Assist extension.
2️⃣ Sign in with your Google Account.
3️⃣ Read the Gemini Privacy Notice.
You can uncheck Allow Google to use this data to develop and improve Google's machine learning models if you like.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/resources/privacy-notice-gemini-code-assist-individuals
Now you're ready to use Gemini Code Assist!🎉
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/set-up-gemini
Chat and Code generate
You can chat with Gemini in the Gemini pane.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/write-code-gemini#chat
If you want to call Gemini inside your code file, press Control/Command + I and open the bar.
After that, input /generate command and question to Gemini.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/write-code-gemini#generate_code_with_prompts
Code completions
While writing a code, Gemini will make code suggestion.
Press Tab to accept the code suggestion.
Or, Press Esc or continue writing your code to ignore the suggestion.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/write-code-gemini#get_code_completions
Quick fix
If there's an error in your code, Gemini Code Assist gives you the option to quick fix.
Point the squiggly error line and select Quick Fix, and then select /fix.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/write-code-gemini#use_code_transformation_quick_fix
Specify files
To specify files in your chat prompt, type @ and select the files you want to specify.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/write-code-gemini#prompt_with_specific_files_in_your_workspace_with_local_codebase_awareness
Review GitHub code
Gemini Code Assist for GitHub can review your code when the pull request is created.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/review-github-code
Install Gemini Code Assist for GitHub to use this.
https://github.com/apps/gemini-code-assist
Outro
As I mentioned above, we can use Gemini Code Assist for no cost.🤑
Usually, most AI code assistants are limited use and cannot set privacy for free plan.
However, we can use Gemini Code Assist almost unlimited and can set privacy.
It is now a preview version, so I am looking forward to further development in the future.🤩
Thank you for reading.
Happy AI coding!🤖
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