Software that acts
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By Sam Sugarman
Writing code faster doesn’t tell you what the finished software can do. TypeSafe founder Diogo Almeida joins Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado to discuss Jev, a model developers can put inside their programs. It returns choices with confidence scores, giving software something to work with beyond a paragraph of generated text.
Almeida expects established software companies to benefit because they already know their customers’ workflows. He argues that making code cheaper doesn’t make a mature product easy to reproduce. That’s a forecast about where useful products might come from, not evidence that every incumbent will succeed.
So we’d judge the next step by the work it completes. A confidence score is one input when you decide whether a person should check. It doesn’t decide which actions an application should permit. We still have to define the allowed choices, test the awkward inputs and keep a record of what changed. Faster code is useful when the resulting workflow earns your team’s trust.
Diogo Almeida, TypeSafe AI, in conversation with Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado. Published by a16z.
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