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I agree with you and I doubt we'll get useful AI-generated code before we get strong AI, and by the time we get that we'll have much more interesting applicatio
by simias 6y ago
I agree with you and I doubt we'll get useful AI-generated code before we get strong AI, and by the time we get that we'll have much more interesting applications to showcase I'm sure.
I can definitely see this tech leading to ever more clever linters though. Having an AI reading my code, interpreting the comments, variable and function names and use that to look for bugs in my implementation could be highly valuable, assuming that the number of false positives isn't overwhelming. "Your comment says that you apply the discount only on palindromes but your condition here is wrong and your code ends up doing the opposite".
- throwawaygh 6y agoWe already have AI-generated code. It's just that compilers work well enough to actually use, we understand their limitations, and so we stopped calling microcode compilers "automatic programmers" back in the 80s. I think we will have useful source code synthesizers for high-level languages at some point in the next few years. They will probably look more like alphazero than gpt-3 though. I'm not sure that they will be commercially successful. The way you automate away programmers is Wix, not Ruby on Rails program synthesizers.
- TomMarius 6y agoThe next step could be WASM synthetiser, though.