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New generative AI for code tools help developers do their jobs more quickly with less effort by synthesizing code. ChatGPT and other LLM approaches have made this kind of generative AI accessible to a broad general audience. Developers are flocking to it. But too often overlooked are the fundamental differences between generative AI for code tools, and those differences inform which approach is better for your developer tasks. Under the covers, generative AI for code tools fall into two basic categories: transformer-based…