The claim seems to be: we can take specifications in natural language -> C automatically! Color me skeptical about how well this will work in the real world.
I wonder where their specs come from? Not to mention that, for many projects on which I have worked, the specs change after you start coding as the initial coding uncovers things, like corner cases, the original specifiers had not considered. On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:27 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I have noticed, in recent years, a trend towards outfits not accepting > (or ignoring) problem reports on their software. > > Of course, there's issues of available talent, and on the other side > there's people who have been happy to submit bogus problem reports. > > But, I wonder if this approach to software development would > accelerate or reverse that trend? > > (Another trend is towards baking logic into hardware -- especially for > consumer oriented goods. That, of course, has its own issues with > problem reports...) > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM 'Skip Cave' via Chat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > *Open-Source Code Generator Is Very Good at Writing in C* > > > > > > *ZDNetLiam TungMarch 7, 2022* > > > > Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have launched an automated > > code generator model trained on multiple programming languages, which > they > > said they found was very good at writing code in C. The researchers hope > > the open-source PolyCoder can democratize research into artificial > > intelligence (AI) code generation, which companies like Alphabet > subsidiary > > DeepMind and Open AI now dominate. Underlying auto code generation is the > > premise that the process can save developers time, assuming the output is > > accurate and lacks security flaws. The CMU researchers said PolyCoder has > > "2.7 [billion] parameters based on the GPT-2 architecture, that was > trained > > on 249 [gigabytes] of code across 12 programming languages on a single > > machine." > > > > *Full Article > > < > https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-2e35bx33221cx095084&; > >* > > > > Skip Cave > > Cave Consulting LLC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
