Chatgpt for Macos is getting a new feature that will make it Easier for Software Developers to get coding assistance. Announced Last Week, The New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Feature Allows the Openai Chatbot to work with integrated development environment (Ides) and Edit Coding in the user’s preferred coding tool. This will enable them to not spend time manually transferring code and make the process more seamless. The new feature comes just a couple of months after openai expanded the canvas feature to the mac version of chatgpt.
Chatgpt for Macos Gets Code Editing Capability
In a post on x (formerly known as Twitter) The official handle of Openai developers annouted the new feature. So far, getting coding assistance from chatgpt’s macos desktop app was tricky. While The AI Block Take Context from the user’s existing code with the screenshot feature and generate changes to the code based on text prompts provided by the user, transferring the edited Cumbersome process.
This was trust there was no automated workflow to transfer the code to the ids. As a result, users would have to manually copy and paste the code while ensuring only the changed portions get carried over, and no repeated lines are out. The manual nature of the task also made it prone to errors, fixing which would take additional time.
However, with the last week’s update, Macos users can now edit code and directly apply the changes to the user’s codebase. The functionality works with xcode, vs code, and jetbrain, but it is unchary with other development environment environments are supplied.
Currently, this feature is being rolled out to chatgpt pro, plus, and team subscribers. The company stated that the enterprise and edu users will get it next weEK Along
Notably, this capability is being extended via Openai’s “Work With Apps” Capability which which was first related in November 2024 in Beta. It is an agentic function that lets chatgpt access certain apps on the device and performance tasks on behahalf of the user. This functionality was alredy offered by existing ai platforms such as cursor and github copilot.
In January, The AI Firm Expanded Canvas to Chatgpt for Macos. The Sandbox-Styled Pop-Up Windows Users to work along the chatbot to make inline edits in projects involving coding or creative writing. Openai has also upgraded the feature with the support of the o1 ai model.
