The Spread of “No Code”. No more programmers?
- 2020.08.17
A joint research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Intel has successfully developed an algorithm with the ability to generate algorithms. However, it’s too early to extend the fantasy that this could lead to an apocalyptic dystopia like the one ruled by Skynet. What they have achieved this time is the automation of programming by machines. This allows programmers to automate a variety of tedious and repetitive tasks. And by taking this to the limit, anyone can program simply by describing the tasks they want to run. The team’s system, called Machine Inference Code Similarity (MISIM), learns how one piece of software works by analyzing the differences in syntax between one piece of software and another piece of code that behaves similarly, or by studying the structure of the code. The idea of a computer that can read natural language instructions and program them automatically has been around for some time and is already being put into practice by several no-code development platforms (NCDPs) created under the so-called “no code” movement. A growing number of companies are building systems based on code created by third parties or obtained from repositories and platforms, led by start-ups that have […]