[dbwest]

Saw this part and got curious: "Programmers note that a system like this can’t build larger projects out of small snippets of code which, to be fair, sounds like whistling past the graveyard."

So I clicked on the original link and saw this: "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."

A far cry at this point from "OUT of the way, human, I’ve got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code."

Still it's been amazing how much has been done with deep learning in such a short period of time.

I wonder when this will change from seeming like an advanced code snippet finder/synthesizer to an actual skilled coder.