Mozilla and Ubisoft partner on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit

Mozilla and Ubisoft today announced a partnership to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant. Clever-Commit is designed to help programmers evaluate if a code change will introduce a new bug, based on learnings from past bugs and fixes. The tool combines data from the bug tracking system and the version control system to detect patterns of programming mistakes based on the history of the development of a given piece of software. Yves Jacquier, head of Ubisoft La Forge, unveiled the partnership at Dice Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.

If Clever-Commit sounds familiar, you might be remembering its predecessor, a prototype named Commit-Assistant. Ubisoft La Forge (Ubisoft Montreal’s research lab) and Concordia University unveiled Commit-Assistant to the world in March 2018. After successful tests with data accumulated during the development of video games, the prototype was transferred to the Ubisoft Technology Group with the goal of being used across the company.