{"id":3704,"date":"2017-02-23T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/deepcoder-builds-programs-using-code-it-finds-lying-around.html"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:48:19","slug":"deepcoder-builds-programs-using-code-it-finds-lying-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/deepcoder-builds-programs-using-code-it-finds-lying-around.html","title":{"rendered":"DeepCoder builds programs using code it finds lying around"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Like all great programmers I get most of my code from StackOverflow questions. Can\u2019t figure out how to add authentication to Flask? Easy<\/a>. Want to shut down sendmail? Boom<\/a>. Now, thanks to all the code on the Internet, a robot can be as smart as a $180,000 coder.<\/p>\n

The system, called DeepCoder<\/a>, basically searches a corpus of code to build a project that works to spec. It\u2019s been used to complete programming competitions and could be pointed at a larger set of data to build more complex products.<\/p>\n

From the paper:<\/p>\n

The system gets smarter as it keeps practicing, figuring out which snippets of code work best together and when to use a certain snippet in place of another. Because it \u201clearns\u201d the system can get faster and faster as it builds more programs.<\/p>\n

Matej Balog at the University of Cambridge and Alexander L. Gaunt, Marc Brockschmidt, Sebastian Nowozin, Daniel Tarlow at Microsoft Research built the product and co-authored a paper on its use. Programmers note that a system like this can\u2019t build larger projects out of small snippets of code<\/a> which, to be fair, sounds like whistling past the graveyard.<\/p>\n

Given that this is how many programmers work \u2013 cutting up code and repurposing it \u2013 this seems like an excellent use for deep learning systems. I can imagine this being a great solution for simple CRUD apps \u2013 the basic tools needed to update and add records to a database. In fact, it could mean the end of the entry level programmer job all together. I, for one, welcome our job-killing AI-powered robot overlords.<\/p>\n

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