[amelius]

Or perhaps they use Humans first (like Mechanical Turks), and plan to replace them later by AI when the technology is there.

[marmaduke]

What if the mech Turks are like the MC simulations used for training the Alpha Go networks?

What if you stuff the Qt docs into a DL model and using the qt source code as training data? Could the network produce usable source code based on docs?

[gvb]

"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine [random code fragments], will the right [code] come out?"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...

[marmaduke]

Tl;dr.

But Babbage’s machine was not différentiable.