I actually agree with you on that. I had another comment further down the thread where I said that software engineering can’t be fully automated by anything short of artificial general intelligence.
As humans we have a coherent world model that current AI systems are nowhere near close to having.
That coherent world model is a necessary precondition for both understanding a business goal and implementing a program to solve it.
AlphaCode can do the second part but not the first.
AlphaCode doesn’t have that world model and even if it did it still wouldn’t autonomously act on it, just follow orders from humans.
Competitive programming is going to be solved much earlier than programming in a business context will, because it’s completely independent of business requirements. It’s at most half as hard of a problem .
As humans we have a coherent world model that current AI systems are nowhere near close to having.
That coherent world model is a necessary precondition for both understanding a business goal and implementing a program to solve it. AlphaCode can do the second part but not the first.
AlphaCode doesn’t have that world model and even if it did it still wouldn’t autonomously act on it, just follow orders from humans.
Competitive programming is going to be solved much earlier than programming in a business context will, because it’s completely independent of business requirements. It’s at most half as hard of a problem .