Methods, systems and computer program products for augmenting a programming environment for developing software code using an automated dialog system are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes monitoring actions taken in the programming environment, determining intent of the actions taken, and generating a natural language dialog in a graphical user interface of the automated dialog system. The natural language dialog comprises suggested additional actions to be taken based at least in part on the determined intent, where the suggested additional actions affect code files in the programming environment. The computer-implemented method also includes providing, in the graphical user interface, user-activatable interface features for selecting respective ones of the suggested additional actions, and modifying one or more of the code files in the programming environment in accordance with a given suggested additional action, responsive to detecting selection of a given user-activatable interface feature corresponding to the given suggested additional action.