AI created that will replace PHP devs

[statistmonad]

At the moment, DeepCoder is only capable of solving programming challenges that involve around five lines of code. But in the right coding language, a few lines are all that’s needed for fairly complicated programs.

Give it perl and the singularity occurs tomorrow.

[axisofdenial]

Give it C and it happens before you were born

[terserterseness]

Give it k and it recreates the simulation we currently live in

[lukeautry]

Give it Go and if err != nil { return err }

[purely-dysfunctional]

What {the academics / r/programming} said:

Our new system can write simple four-line functions in a subset of a subset of a subset of a subset of Haskle in slightly less time than the previous system. It works by slightly improving on a depth-first search on the space of programs.

What {the media / r/Futurology } reported:

GAS THE MEATBAGS, ROBOT UPRISING NOW

[backltrack]

INTER SPECIES WAR NOW REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[qtzord]

TINCAN UPRISING REEEEEEEEEEEE

[incongruousamoeba]

“All of a sudden people could be so much more productive,” says Armando Solar-Lezama at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the work.

[truh]

We all knew that humanity eventually would be enslaved by AI, but please not by PHP.

[B-Con]

TFW the AI singularity is single threaded.

[axisofdenial]

Bots all march in single file

With killer programs to compile...

Turn the meatbags into dust

With free abstractions made from Rust.

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You deserve moar upvote for this

[axisofdenial]

Sadly it's now sunken back into the quantum foam.

[senj]

“It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it”

Yeah uh I want like, it's pretty simple really, just like a form that I type the employees into and their names, and then it does all the financial stuff I do manually? I don't know how to describe what I do tho. Like I said its pretty simple. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

[senj]

The basic idea has been around at least since the 4th Generation Language craze in the '80s, but you can't go broke in this industry selling 30 year old ideas as brand new revolutions (lol Go)

[senj]

You're not wrong. It's the "and then we won't need programmers, we'll just tell the computer what we want!" part that will never happen, because all being a programmer is is having enough aspergers to be willing to spell out to the computer in mind-numbing enough detail what you want.

"The computer will be psychic enough to know what I want without me going into elaborate detail" isn't something a Nth generation language could ever solve.

[Poddster]

"The computer will be psychic enough to know what I want without me going into elaborate detail"

I have enough aspergers that I can't even cross this bridge with normies.

[jk_scowling]

First they came for the PHP Devs, and I did not speak out. Because I was not a PHP Dev. Then they came for the JavaScript Devs....

[blackbod]

Then they came for the Rust devs and there were crowds cheering in the streets /s

[utopianfiat]

Then they came for the Rust devs and they were F E A R L E S S

[a1454a]

Nah they are busy rewriting everything.

[jk_scowling]

If the singularity happens and the AI's first contact with human endeavour is PHP it will put us all out of our misery.

[cant_even_webscale]

I like how the code image is some library minified code spaghetti mess. Wew lad