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> Research in automatic programming is simply research in the implementation of higher-level programming languages. That's most of what such research has been
by ScottBurson 10y ago
> Research in automatic programming is simply research in the implementation of higher-level programming languages.
That's most of what such research has been to date, but that doesn't mean that's necessarily all that automatic programming will ever be.
What is clear is that reasoning about programs is a remarkably difficult AI problem. Still, in a world where AlphaGo has beaten Lee Se-dol, I would not want to bet that it will never be solved.
- goatlover 10y agoSure, and AlphaGo is an impressive feat, but it's still just a board game, which is a far cry from the unbounded nature of programming and trying to figure out what a customer wants. Go has well defined rules and a limited space. This is not true of software development in general. It's an entirely different kind of problem.