Malleable software in the age of LLMs

All computer users may soon have the ability to author small bits of code. What structural changes does this imply for the production and distribution of software?

March 2023 Malleable software in the age of LLMs All computer users may soon have the ability to author small bits of code. What structural changes does this imply for the production and distribution of software? It's been a wild few weeks for large language models. OpenAI released GPT-4 , which shows impressive gains on a variety of capabilities including coding. Microsoft Research released a paper showing how GPT-4 was able to produce quite sophisticated code like a 3D video game without much prompting at all. OpenAI also released plugins for ChatGPT , which are a productized version of the

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