[nightski]

This is really cool and I believe necessary work. We need to start thinking about how to automate programming and to free ourselves much further from the mundane. Trust me, there is still plenty of room for people to analyze requirements and come up with a high level solution to people's problems that doesn't require fiddling with float: right and various technical hacks.

That said I wonder if this is the right approach. At some point "AI" as used in this context is just a function mapping from an input domain to an output domain. The output domain in this case, "code" was designed for human readability (whether it succeeded is a whole different approach).

What would a programming language designed for output from an AI system look like? How could we optimize it to reduce the output domain size of the function the AI has to train to learn? How could we optimize it to make the problem more tractable for machines? I feel like there is an entire field of research here. Maybe it has already been studied and I am just late to the game.