Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by adrianN on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:10AM
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I don't think anyone wants elegant proofs for their software's correctness. As long as the code is proven correct, programmers would be satisfied.
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Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by agentultra on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @08:27AM
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I had mentioned that. This is true today when software developers are writing proofs and why automation is useful.
You would still need to be able to read the proof that a computer generated and understand what it contains in order to judge whether it is correct with respect to your specifications. So in some sense elegance would be useful since the proof isn’t written by a human but has to be understood by one.
If the input here is still plain language prompts… then we’ll have to assume that we eventually develop artificial cognition. As far as I know, there isn’t a serious academic attempting this, only VC’s with shovels to sell.
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by bgandrew on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:01AM
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Meanwhile, the shovels learned to solve mathematical problems of the international math olympiad.
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphageometry-an-olymp...
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by agentultra on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:18PM
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Deep learning also learned how to play Go, not terribly interesting.