Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform

Re:Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans soft... by deweller on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:14AM (#18391695)

In my experience, there is a tradeoff between high re-usability and performance.

Building modules that can interact with any one of hundreds of other modules usually requires a fair amount of adapter code. This code comes with a performance penalty.

Maybe their market is ok with lesser performance. But I am highly skeptical that apps built this way will ever compete with apps built for a single, specific purpose.

I do hope they can advance the state of the art in some way though, because software development still feels way more tedious to me than it should be.

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Re:Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans soft... by rapsey on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:36AM (#18391903)

People run js everywhere and use ruby/python/php on the server. None of these are efficient

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Re:Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans soft... by xae342 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:11AM (#18392239)

We need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.

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Re:Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans soft... by memebox3f on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:36AM (#18392511)

That's the best idea I have heard this year.

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Re:Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans soft... by claydavisss on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#18391717)

And this already exists to a certain extent - people selling Windows UI widgets, people selling React components...most of this stuff has gone away and been replaced by open SDKs or services.

This just seems like gig-economy + 90s Windows Widget business

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