DARPA will invest $ 11 million in "auto-selection for programmers"
Rice University is developing a project called Pliny. This is not a robot or a high-tech weapon - it is just a tool designed to make the work of programmers a little easier. Pliny is similar to auto selection in your smartphone, it will help to finish the code automatically.
The name of the project was given in honor of Pliny the Elder, an ancient Greek writer, known as the author of Natural History. It was the largest encyclopedic essay of antiquity. Now his name will be called a tool for programmers. Everything is better than calling a dog by the name of the composer.
PLINY will automatically complement the draft code. The developers describe it as a huge open source repository, all that they can find, which is used to simplify the creation of complex software or to create simple programs for speed. Professor Svarat Chaudhuri, an assistant professor, notes that PLINY "should become a system in which the programmer writes a few lines of code, presses a button and the remaining code simply appears." ')
If the tool enters the market, will there be more programmers? Or rather, “programmers”? Will this not lead to lower prices? Well, this work?