In the early hours of August 22nd, Alibaba unveiled its next-generation AI programming platform, Qoder, to global users. According to reports, Qoder integrates world-leading programming models and provides powerful contextual engineering capabilities, enabling the retrieval of up to 100,000 code files at once. Leveraging a powerful programming agent, it enables AI self-development, significantly boosting the efficiency of real-world software development. Using Qoder to develop the front-end and back-end of an e-commerce website can reduce a task that originally took several days to just ten minutes.
Over the past two years, programming models have continuously iterated, and various AI programming tools have emerged. However, real-world software development still faces challenges such as high complexity, strong uncertainty, and tacit knowledge. The newly released Qoder undergoes a comprehensive upgrade centered around contextual engineering capabilities: it features a built-in code search engine capable of retrieving 100,000 code files; it pioneers support for Repo Wiki, making the tacit knowledge of code engineering explicit for easier understanding by both developers and AI; it integrates a long-short-term memory system that can summarize project experience and personal preferences based on conversation history, storing this information as "notes" to achieve self-learning and evolution, ultimately making the AI's execution results better align with user expectations and preferences.
For example, if a user has requirements during development such as "generate unit tests after completing a task" or "provide a detailed report after task completion," Qoder will understand these user habits, form memories, and automatically perform these tasks in subsequent operations. Test data shows that, thanks to its powerful code retrieval capability, Qoder's retrieval recall rate leads industry benchmark products by 12%, and its code generation accuracy leads by 13%. Its comprehension and generation capabilities for complex engineering tasks are全面提升 (comprehensively enhanced).
In addition to providing Ask Mode and Agent Mode, Qoder also introduces a brand new Quest Mode (AI Self-Development Mode). Based on Quest Mode, the Agent can play the role of a full-stack engineer, automatically converting vague, abstract requirements into detailed design specifications and autonomously completing R&D tasks.
In Quest Mode, users will experience a new development paradigm. After defining requirements, developers use the Agent to write detailed task descriptions, then delegate the task to the Agent for execution. Developers ultimately only need to perform acceptance checks or make necessary modifications, increasing development efficiency for complex tasks by more than tenfold.
Currently, Qoder supports both Mac and Windows systems. Users can download and experience it for free on the Qoder official website.
