Welcome to AutoCoder.AI blog

First, a little bit about ourselves: AutoCoder.AI is an early-stage startup focused on Software Development Automation.  We're inventing and developing the new ways to program with assistance from an advanced AI.  It's not about a new language or a new development environment: we're not interested in more of the same.  What we want to change is what programming is: we're not afraid to reexamine the fundamentals and try radically new approaches to old (and hard) problems.

The founders of the company are not wide-eyed optimists fresh out of college: we are industry veterans, with over a million lines of production code behind us, and here's a sample (by far incomplete) of what we built as engineering leaders and entrepreneurs:

• A family of Unix-compatible operating systems.
• The second commercial Internet Service Provider in the world.
• Compilers and interpreters.
• A line of widely used credit card terminals.
• An embedded O.S.
• Engineering of the first commercial DS-3 Internet backbone and managing Internet connectivity between US and Europe in early 90s.
• The first IP router capable of Tbps speeds.
• Secure middleware for US Department of Defense.
• The high-performance web reputation service with millions of active users.
• The key differentiating features of the best-rated cloud-based data warehouse.

Our current endeavor is born out of growing dissatisfaction with the direction of our profession: we feel that there was little or no progress in software quality and no reduction in routine drudgery which takes most of the programmers' work days. For those of us who were writing code since early 1980s it is obvious that there are alarmingly few signs of positive change in our field: the computers got tremendously faster but we still seem to be stuck in the same tar pit as far as creating software goes (the allusion to Fred Brooks' classic book is intended).

"The software is eating the world"... this is quite true in a sense that more and more artifacts produced by the civilization contain or comprised of software.  But as the prominent Soviet computer scientist Prof. Andrey Ershov (if you haven't heard about him, he's the guy who invented hashing) once quipped: If architects were designing buildings the way programmers write code the very first stray woodpecker would destroy the civilization.

To get a sense of how much things have not changed since his time read his 1972 JCC presentation Aesthetics and the human factor in programming - it is amazing that his words are just as relevant today as they were 45 years ago.

So... this blog.  It is not intended as an official company's marketing outlet.  In fact, all the opinions expressed here are our personal opinions, and what will be posted in this blog may have no bearing whatsoever on what our company does.  It's just a place for gratuitous rants, senseless curmudgeonry, and half-baked thoughts.  You've been warned.