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Mastering Amazon Q Developer Part 1: Crafting Effective Prompts

Mastering Amazon Q Developer Part 1: Crafting Effective Prompts

As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered tools to enhance developer productivity, your ability to effectively communicate with these assistants becomes a valuable skill. This guide explores how you can craft prompts that deliver accurate, useful results when working with Amazon Q Developer. Your success with Amazon Q Developer depends directly on how well you communicate with […]

Continue to take control over your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features

In this blog post, I explore Amazon Q Developer’s latest enhancements to the IDE chat experience including increased context control, chat history and other conversation management features. On March 11th, 2025, my colleague published Take control of your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features detailing several improvements to the chat experience within VS […]

Accelerate development workflows to reduce release cycles using the Amazon Q Developer integration for GitHub (Preview)

Automatically execute coding tasks to reduce development cycles using Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in-preview), available for free, no AWS account required. Amazon Q Developer accelerates feature development within GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Leverage the premium models that power Q Developer at no additional cost, to automatically implement new features, generate bug fixes, increase […]

Intelligent coding at your fingertips: Introducing an agentic coding experience in your IDE

Back in March, I wrote about the new agentic coding experience within the Amazon Q Developer CLI. Recently, Amazon Q Developer announced that it has added a similar experience to the integrated development environement (IDE). Agentic coding in the IDE allows you to work with Amazon Q Developer to read and write files locally, run […]

Extend the Amazon Q Developer CLI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Richer Context

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in the command line interface (CLI). Developers can connect external data sources to Amazon Q Developer CLI with MCP support for more context-aware responses. By integrating MCP tools and prompts into Q Developer CLI, you get access to an expansive list of pre-built integrations […]

Combining Snyk’s Insight with Amazon Q Developer’s Assistance to Streamline Secure Development

Developers today face a constant balancing act – building new features and functionality while also ensuring the security and reliability of their codebase. Two powerful tools, Snyk and Amazon Q Developer, can work in tandem to help developers navigate this challenge with greater efficiency and efficacy. Snyk is a leading developer security platform that empowers […]

Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This new offering is an integrated product, bringing together GitLab’s DevSecOps platform with Amazon Q’s generative AI capabilities. Gitlab Duo with Amazon Q embeds Amazon Q agent capabilities directly in GitLab’s DevSecOps […]