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Ubisoft Partners with Mozilla to Develop Clever-Commit

Published Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:40:55 -0600

Last updated Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:44:34 -0600

A cool little partnership has been formed between Ubisoft and Mozilla this week to work on a new A.I. coding assistant called Clever-Commit. The partnership was revealed at D.I.C.E. 2019 where details of the program were revealed. The goal of the tech is to help programmers "evaluate if a code-change will introduce a new bug by learning from past bugs and fixes". Essentially, trying to eliminate errors in coding whenever a company adds a new update or patch so there are no further errors in the way a game is played after it's been added. A cool concept if they manage to get it working and can sell it to other companies for use. Here's a few quotes from the press release today.

"We are very excited to work with Ubisoft and to contribute to the development of Clever-Commit. Fixing bugs is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Even more so for large and complex bodies of code like browsers and AAA games. By incorporating Clever-Commit into our developer workflow, we will improve Firefox's code-writing process by spotting bug patterns and flagging past patches earlier, at a stage when fixing a bug is a lot cheaper than upon release. This in turn will allow us to ship even more stable versions of Firefox and provide even better browsing experiences to Firefox users," explains Sylvestre Ledru, Lead of Firefox release and quality management.

"Working with Mozilla on Clever-Commit allows us to support other programming languages and increase the overall performances of the technology. Using this tech in our games and Firefox will allow developers to be more productive as they can spend more time creating the next feature rather than fixing bugs. Ultimately, this will allow us to create even better experiences for our gamers and increase the frequency of our game updates," adds Mathieu Nayrolles, technical architect, data scientist and member of the Technological Group at Ubisoft Montreal.

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