Developers are some of the most highly skilled and heavily paid workers in the tech world. But when it comes down to it, developers get to do very little of wha

Developers are some of the most highly skilled and heavily paid workers in the tech world. But when it comes down to it, developers get to do very little of what they actually want to do: coding. Amazon Web Services said in a post on Tuesday that developers report spending an average of “just one hour per day” on actual coding. But that doesn’t mean these workers twiddle their thumbs the remaining seven hours per day. Instead, developers spend the majority of their time on “tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities,” according to Amazon Web Services. But thanks to artificial intelligence, developers may be able to offload some of that tedious work. AWS announced new capabilities for its AI-powered assistant tool, Amazon Q Developer, which can help developers design, build, test, deploy and maintain software. This new product will “give more time back to developers to enable creativity and innovation,” Jessica Feng, senior manager of Amazon Q Developer at AWS, said during the company’s re:Invent event on Tuesday.