The Coming Revolution In Software Development

We may not be close to getting artificial intelligence like that of C-3PO. But AI is setting the scene for a revolution in software development. For decades, software development has been done manually. From punching cards in FORTRAN to writing distributed systems in Go, the discipline has remained fundamentally the same: think deeply about a problem, come up with a clever approach (i.e., algorithm) and give the machine a set of instructions to execute. This method, which could be called "explicit programming," has been integral to everything from the mainframe to the smartphone, from the internet boom to the mobile revolution.