Introduction Bito is a software development company that uses AI to empower development teams to win. The company's mission is to accelerate the impact of new and experienced developers through AI tools that reduce bugs and save time on routine tasks, freeing up time for creativity and critical thinking. Co-founded by successful entrepreneurs Amar Goel, Anand Dasagupta, and Mukesh Kini, Bito is committed to creating a new era of innovation by combining the power of AI with human ingenuity. TLDR Bito is an AI tool that revolutionizes software development by empowering developers to generate code, understand syntax, write test cases, explain code, check security, and much more. Its features include AI Chat, Intelligent Code Insights, Code Completion, Autonomous Code Generation, and Seamless Integration. By leveraging OpenAI's language models, Bito enables developers to save up to an hour a day, taking care of routine tasks and allowing them to focus on creativity and critical thinking. Available for free in alpha, Bito is committed to ensuring privacy and security, and users do not have to worry about Bito storing their code. Bito is the tool of the future that every developer should try.
Company Overview
Bito is a company that believes that the future of innovation lies in the hands of talented development teams that bring concepts and ideas to life. The company's mission is to re-imagine software development by empowering dev teams with AI tools that enable them to win. By using AI as a powerful supercharger, Bito aims to accelerate new and experienced developers’ impact on the software development process while reducing bugs, saving time on menial work, and freeing up time for critical thinking.
The founders of Bito have a long history of entrepreneurship and success in building companies. Co-founder Amar Goel, a serial entrepreneur, founded PubMatic in 2006, serving as the company's first CEO. PubMatic went public in 2020 and is currently trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Before PubMatic, Amar founded several other companies, including Komli Media, the leading independent advertising technology platform in the APAC region. Co-founder Anand Dasagupta, CTO of Bito, has also co-founded and was CTO of PubMatic in 2006, a company that handles over 300 billion ad auctions per day generating over 100 terabytes of data per day across a global cloud network. Previously he held various engineering roles at Panta Systems, a high-performance computing start-up, and at Veritas and Symantec, where he worked on a variety of storage and backup products.
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mukesh Kini has two decades of product and engineering leadership experience in enterprise SaaS, where he previously headed product management at Komli Media and was CEO and Co-founder of RevX, an e-Commerce advertising platform acquired by Affle.
The team at Bito believes in developers driving the innovations of the future, including huge data sets, flying cars, and web3 that will be the master masons behind intelligent software that powers mankind's greatest inventions. The company is continuously looking to grow and meet interesting people who share the same excitement and passion for innovation. If you like what they're doing at Bito and want to be part of this exciting mission, they'd love to talk with you, so jump aboard, let's go!
Features
AI Chat
Flexible AI Assistance
Bito AI chat is the most flexible way to use AI assistance. Developers can type any technical question to generate the best possible response. It understands natural language and can help with coding challenges, debugging, and provide suggestions for coding improvement.
Developers can seamlessly integrate Bito AI chat with popular messaging platforms, such as Slack or Teams, and get AI assistance without leaving their preferred communication window.
Huge Knowledge Base
Unlike other tools that only provide basic explanations of common programming concepts, Bito AI chat is powered by GPT language models that have been trained on a massive amount of technical documentation, stack overflow questions, and code repositories. Developers can get detailed explanations of almost any concept related to programming, from basic syntax questions to advanced topics such as deep learning algorithms. They can use these explanations to deepen their understanding of concepts or provide in-depth explanations to team members.
Code Generator
Developers can also use Bito AI chat to generate code from natural language prompts. For example, developers can ask Bito AI chat to generate a function definition or a for loop that accomplishes a specific task. Bito AI chat understands the intent behind the request and generates code that adheres to the best programming practices based on the programming language used.
This feature can save developers significant time and provide them with insights on better ways to code and accomplish tasks.
Intelligent Code Insights
Advanced Code Reviews
Bito AI code insight is a tool that analyzes codebases and provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality. It uses advanced algorithms to detect and fix common code issues, such as redundant code, inconsistent naming conventions, and incorrect function usage. Developers can use these recommendations to make changes proactively and avoid potential issues or dependencies that could compromise code quality.
The insights engine integrates seamlessly with version control systems, ensuring that recommendations are always up-to-date.
Intelligent Analysis
Bito AI code insight uses AI techniques to understand the semantics and intent behind various code segments. Developers can use this feature to quickly identify inconsistencies, dependencies, or issues that could cause runtime errors or security vulnerabilities. The intelligent analysis feature reduces developers' cognitive burden by providing them with insights that might not be apparent through manual analysis.
Developers can also use this feature to learn from the best coding practices and apply these insights in their work.
Customizable Analysis
Developers can use Bito AI code insight to define custom sets of rules that fit their specific coding style or requirements. This feature enables developers to tailor the deductions engine to their specific use case, ensuring that recommendations are relevant and actionable. Developers can also share custom rulesets with team members or the Bito community, fostering a culture of code quality and best practices.
Code Completion
Predictive Text
Bito AI code completion is a feature that enhances developers' productivity by predicting the next line of code based on historical programming patterns. This feature uses machine learning techniques to analyze tens of thousands of open-source coding projects, including coding styles, frameworks, and libraries used in real-world coding scenarios. Predictive text can reduce coding time by up to 4x, significantly reducing tedious or repetitive coding tasks common in most programming projects.
Real-Time Suggestions
Bito AI code completion provides real-time syntax and spelling suggestions, ensuring that code is consistent and bugs are kept to a minimum. Developers can use these suggestions to improve code readability or to learn new coding patterns that improve code quality and performance. The real-time suggestions feature reduces errors and helps developers write better code faster.
Personalized Suggestions
Because Bito AI code completion is trained on millions of coding contracts, it can provide personalized suggestions based on developers' coding patterns, style guides, and usage patterns. This feature helps developers learn from experienced programmers and provides context-specific suggestions that help improve code quality and consistency.
Autonomous Code Generation
Generative Models Training
Bito AI aims to revolutionize software development by creating an autonomous programming assistant that can generate not just code snippets, but entire applications without human intervention. This feature relies on powerful machine learning algorithms that learn the programming language syntax and other characteristics from massive amounts of programming data. Developers can use this feature to create applications faster and more efficiently, enjoy simplified maintenance, and more successful user adoption.
AI Code Editing
Bito AI generates applications based on developers' specifications in natural language, rather than manual coding. This feature saves time on development and ensures maintenance costs are lower than manual coding, and reduces the risk of introducing defects or vulnerabilities. Intelligent code editing eliminates hours of boring, tedious, repetitive work and delivers high-quality code by combining human creativity with AI reasoning.
Applications Galore
Bito aims for a world where developers and the creative power of humans and machines work together better. By relying on artificial intelligence, it makes feasible what is not possible with manual coding. Developers can generate a variety of applications with Bito AI, from simple WordPress plugins to advanced iOS or Android apps.
Developers provide the direction and interpretation, while Bito AI does the coding. Bito AI unlocks creativity and speeds up the development cycle for businesses and development teams alike.
Integrate Seamlessly
API Integration
Developers can integrate Bito AI seamlessly with their preferred software development tools and services. Bito’s API provides flexible integration points that developers can use to leverage the power of AI in their development workflow. If developers are using natively hosted products like Jira or Trello, usage can still occur through a webhook or other custom integrations providing flexibility and variety.
Popular Development Tools Integration
Whether development teams are working with Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text, or any other preferred development tool, Bito AI integrates with them. With specific extension development processes, collaborative coding and knowledge sharing benefit from Bito AI, code completion and style checking tools, allowing developers to take full advantage of AI's power in their development workflow without experiencing friction during a build.
Forum Integration
Bito AI chat integrates with popular development forums such as StackOverflow and Reddit, enabling developers to gain insight from the community, as well as Bito AI itself. Forums provide exposure to the depth of knowledge that many AI tools do not possess. Bito AI chat provides a platform to harness the collective knowledge of developers around the globe, enabling rapid, intelligent solutions for development problems.
FAQ
What is Bito and how does it help developers?
Bito is an AI tool designed to help developers significantly improve their performance by bringing GPT-4 and ChatGPT to their IDE and CLI. Bito leverages OpenAI’s models to make it easy to generate code, understand syntax, write test cases, explain code, comment code, check security, and even explain high-level concepts.
How can Bito save me time?
Bito has been designed to help developers save valuable time by making it easy to generate code, understand syntax, create test cases, explain code, check security, and lots more. With Bito, developers can save around an hour a day, allowing them to focus on their other important tasks.
What can I use Bito for?
Bito provides various capabilities to help developers, including generating code, explaining code and concepts, writing test cases, checking security, and much more. Bito can help you dramatically improve your coding workflow while saving time with the help of these features.
What is the cost of Bito?
Bito is currently in alpha and is available free of charge.
Does Bito store my code?
No, Bito does not store any of your code. It only stores metadata such as file name and line numbers.
All messages and metadata are encrypted in transit and encrypted at rest for your security and privacy. You can also contact support at [email protected] if you want to provide your own keys for encryption or discuss other options.
What security measures does Bito employ?
We take security and privacy seriously. Bito does not view or store any of your code.
All the messages and metadata are encrypted at rest and in transit to ensure your privacy and security. You can also contact support at [email protected] if you want to provide your own keys for encryption or need further information.
How do I re-load Bito manually if I'm using Visual Studio Code?
If you're using Visual Studio Code, re-loading Bito manually is easy. In case VS Code does not prompt for a reload, you can do the following:
- Open the command palette by pressing Ctrl + Shift + P
- Execute the command: >Reload Window.
- OR Use command key Alt+F4 to close window, or select the Close Window option from the File menu, and re-open the VS Code editor.
