The First AI Software Engineer Is Here!

Key Takeaways

we just talked about the first published AI virus and what do I see the first AI software engineer has appeared now wait a minute we always talk about Alpha code Chad GPT and other AI assistants being really good at coding so what is new here oh boy look at that the difference is that this is an AI that is designed to take a task from us and then start working as a real software engineer would it will make a plan use the command line a code editor and it will check for references within this browser and we can supervise it like we would supervise a real person it is called Devon so how good is Devon let's see through four amazing examples dear fellow Scholars this is two minute papers with Dr Caro well look it had found something behaving in a way that it didn't expect to so it will try to pop the hood and find out what went wrong very much like a real human wood really cool but it gets better so much better one we can for instance ask it to create a browser app where we can play the game of Life a cellular automata based simulation game okay that's cool but this is something thing that has tons of implementations online so I would like to see a bit of creativity here for instance start a new world with the letters of your own name and fix a bug where the screen is freezing and since it works similarly to a real human it is happy to show the work it has done we can take a look and decide whether we accept it it claims to have fixed the back too so let's see the result now we're talking this is something that in this form has not been done before okay so it can fix bugs and do some creative stuff that's great but can it extend and help with already existing code bases let's see through this open source project two here several processes were run at the same time and unfortunately they all failed but they don't really say why fortunately this case doesn't even need a proper description because other people have also requested it just check the link in there and now little AI you figure it out it writes a plan installs the dependencies looks up the website and the coding can start H now it claims to have finished and oh my look at that beauty it now shows the status codes so we get more information as to why these processes have failed finally we can inspect the code and accept it so it can contribute to already existing projects too that is incredible now three it can even take a real paid computer vision project it starts out fixing this seemingly never-ending list of issues with great patience and speed and the incredible thing thing is that we can see through each step it has taken and it shows very humanlike Behavior it is understandable for us what it has done and easy to evaluate and now finally it writes a report and marks the damage in the road on these images four now hold on to your papers fellow Scholars because it can also be asked to train a different AI once again issues need to be fixed they do get fixed by reinstalling a few packages and off we go training an AI so this is an AI training a different AI wow what a time to be alive now before we get too excited about this not so fast this tool also has its own limitations when tested on a difficult data set that contains real software bugs from GitHub that need fixing H previous technique had a one-digit percentage success rate 4 5% is considered good and this one this one is way better wow however this is still lucky to solve one out of six of these difficult problems it is given an incredible Leap Forward but there is still so much work to do and of course ultimately we are in charge here is just an assistant but a super helpful one and that if you're looking for inexpensive Cloud gpus for AI Lambda now offers the best prices in the world for GPU Cloud compute no commitments or negotiation required just sign up and launch an instance and hold on to your papers because with the Lambda GPU Cloud you can now get on demand h100 instances and they are one of the first Cloud providers to offer publicly available on demand h100 accs did I mention they also offer persistent storage so join researchers at organizations like apple MIT and ctech in using Lambda Cloud instances workstations or servers make sure to go to lamb.com slapers to sign up for one of their amazing GPU instances today