AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by qw on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:04AM (#13714377)

I'm not saying it applies to your case, but one danger of specifying a problem in too much detail, is that it teaches the engineers to think less about the problem. From my experience developers often think of failure cases that the managers are not aware of, or have a simpler solution to a problem.

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Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by NegativeK on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:41AM (#13715247)

And yet if the problem isn't specified enough, we engineers will run off and deal with failure cases that aren't relevant to the client's needs.

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Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by prance on Thursday February 23, 2017 @12:39PM (#13715830)

This discussion reminds of this question/answer on quora: https://www.quora.com/Since-programming-can-be-self-taught-w...

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Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by mondoshawan on Thursday February 23, 2017 @01:15PM (#13716216)

I, too, find this to be the case. There seems to be a happy medium of "you figure it out" and "it must do exactly this".

As a relatively new manager, I find figuring out where the balance is tricky.

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