Big tech companies like Microsoft and Alphabet are developing AI-powered tools to write code.
Earlier this month, Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind announced that it has created a system called AlphaCode that can code just as well as an average human programmer.
AlphaCode was tested in a coding competition and marked the first time an AI code generation system reached a competitive level of performance in programming competitions. It is an impressive technical achievement, but DeepMind is far from the only tech company developing AI-powered tools that can write their own code. Across the world of enterprise tech, developer experience is a key focus area. The pitch is that smart developers can focus on …
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