AlphaCode is a piece of academic research. It's about demonstrating a possibility of using a particular type of a model to solve a particular type of tasks. It'

AlphaCode is a piece of academic research. It's about demonstrating a possibility of using a particular type of a model to solve a particular type of tasks. It's not about making a practical tool. People can certainly take this approach and build tools. That might take different shapes and forms. There are many ways these models can be specialized, fine-tuned, combined with other approaches, etc. For example, somebody can try to apply them to a narrow use case, e.g. generate front-end code in React/JS and CSS from a backend API. They can fine-tune it on best example of React code, add a way to signal uncertainty so that specification can be clarified, etc. Nobody expects these models to be able to write an entire OS kernel any time soon. But a lot of types of programming are far more regular, repetitive and can be verified a lot easier.