While coding assistants are great for busting out new lines of code, it turns out actually writing code is not as big a part of software development as you might think. 🌟 #AI #Coding #TechInnovation https://t.co/1NgQgUzTq3
A new method makes AI-generated code more accurate in any language. “It could improve programming assistants, AI-powered data analysis, and scientific discovery tools by ensuring that AI-generated outputs remain both useful and correct,” João Loula says. https://t.co/gaPq0qFxby
"As we saw AI getting more powerful, we believed the way people build software was going to change." Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf says traditional IDEs like VS Code were built for a paradigm where the developer writes nearly all the code and the IDE simply offers syntax https://t.co/j4lhFtx0Vq
Generative AI tools, including GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Replit, have significantly increased the volume of code produced by both developers and non-developers. This shift has enabled a broader range of users to build software projects efficiently. MIT researchers have introduced a new method that enhances the accuracy of AI-generated code in any programming language by guiding large language models (LLMs) to produce outputs that are structurally valid and error-free. The approach uses a sequential Monte Carlo technique, allowing smaller models to outperform larger ones in tasks such as molecular biology and robotics. João Loula of MIT stated, “It could improve programming assistants, AI-powered data analysis, and scientific discovery tools by ensuring that AI-generated outputs remain both useful and correct.” Additionally, MIT, in collaboration with IBM, has developed the self-disciplined autoregressive sampling (SASA) technique, which enables LLMs to detoxify their own outputs during generation. This method maintains fluency while reducing the risk of generating toxic or biased language. Industry analysis from AMD indicates that while AI coding assistants are effective at generating code, actual code writing is only a small part of software development. Developers devote substantial time to debugging, code review, and testing. AMD projects a 25% productivity boost by integrating AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle.