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10/27/25, 1:44 PM Red Hat Launches Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for AI-Powered Developer Productivity - Middle East Business News and Infor…

Red Hat Developer Lightspeed is now integrated into Red Hat’s Red Hat Developer
Hub and migration toolkit for applications. The offerings are designed to assist with both non-

coding and coding tasks that support the application development lifecycle:

Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for Red Hat Developer Hub is an AI virtual assistant for

speeding up non-coding developer tasks to increase developer productivity. Through a chat-
like interface in the Red Hat Developer Hub console, it can help with exploring application

design approaches, drafting documentation, generating test plans and troubleshooting
applications. This allows developers to more quickly move from a blank page to an action

plan or a solution, helping to increase developer productivity and deliver business value
faster. The assistant supports a “bring your own model” approach, allowing teams to use

their preferred public or self-hosted LLM to better balance their performance, cost and data
privacy needs.

Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for migration toolkit for applications is an extension that
intelligently automates source code refactoring within a developer’s integrated development

environment (IDE). Unlike traditional code editors, this assistant understands migration
issues and how to solve them. Also unique to this assistant is that it learns what changes

have been successful with each migrated application, providing more accurate code solutions
over time and helping enterprises to more quickly refactor similar applications. This results

in faster application refactoring and increased savings when modernizing applications to
cloud-native technologies.

Lowering the barrier to replatforming applications:

While Red Hat Developer Lightspeed provides intelligent assistance for the hands-on
refactoring of applications, the newly released migration toolkit for applications 8 (MTA 8) helps

address the rest of the application modernization journey. In this new release, MTA 8 delivers

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