Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
AI capability to produce functional source code from natural language descriptions, specifications, or partial code context.
GitHub Copilot, used by 1.8 million developers, generates code completions accepted 30-35% of the time, and a 2023 GitHub study found it reduces coding time by 55% on targeted tasks.
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 achieves 90.2% on HumanEval and 76.2% on MBPP, surpassing GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus on coding benchmarks as an open-source model, used by developers requiring a self-hosted coding assistant.
Cursor AI's agent mode uses code generation to implement entire features from natural language descriptions, running tests automatically and iterating on failures - reducing the time to implement a new API endpoint from 2 hours to 20 minutes.