Microsoft introduces a new platform that can replace programmers with AI

Microsoft recently introduced a new platform called AutoDev, which allows AI agents to interact with each other to develop code in the future. The human programmer will then be assigned a supervisory role.

The platform relies on multiple repositories to handle software engineering tasks of a complex nature. AutoDev is capable of performing methods such as file editing, source code manipulation, application building and testing, and version management.

According to Microsoft research, with AutoDev, human programmers will take on supervision work, similar to what project managers do. Thus, the AI ​​will take on the work of writing the code necessary for the program's goals, while the human programmer becomes a spectator of the work performed by the AI, able to intervene whenever he or she finds it necessary. .

In this future, humans will have to learn to explain their purposes instead of perfecting coding techniques like today to be able to intervene whenever AI deviates from the goals defined in its conception. of project.

Microsoft's new platform makes many people ask what the future will be like if AI takes over what humans are doing, and then what jobs will humans do? If everything is done by AI, who will have the knowledge to fix it when necessary? This is a difficult problem and no one can give the exact answer.

Kareem Winters

Update 19 April 2024