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by Jach 2227 days ago
I don't see it replacing (or even much augmenting) professional programming any time soon... My predicted use case for this is mostly with non-programmers. They'll be instructed to write in English what they want to be done, and behind the scenes this will attempt to generate code, execute it, and give the results. A fun demo would be writing "Download the recipe on this webpage (paste link) and order the ingredients from Safeway". If it could generate its own billing and shipping storage to remember indefinitely after getting it from the user, then generate the relevant web scraping / web driving or API code for various websites, that'd be pretty sweet.