Thread by @paraschopra

Just saw the live demo of @OpenAI’s new model Codex - it converts natural language into code.

Not so far from today, you’ll be able to describe what you want to get done and the model will output code that’ll do exactly that.

For example, you could say:

“Email me whenever a tweet mentioning bitcoin and elon musk gets retweeted more number of times than a tweet mentioning doge. If I don’t open the email, call me”.

It’ll use APIs to write a code to get this done.

This is significant in two ways:

- It takes the user beyond interacting with standard visual interfaces which are the same for everyone. When interaction is via generated code, each user can use a software in extremely customised manner (in ways devs may not even have imagined).

- More importantly, it’ll allow cooking up of use cases connecting multiple software.

For example, “whenever a book on consciousness is mentioned on hacker news, add it to my Amazon wish list”.

Eventually, something like this will get integrated into Siri / Google Assistant with OS becoming this intelligent instruction-to-code-to-execution translator.

Of course, we all have seen the movie Her and that’s where this is going.

It’s interesting to think about a world where each user is a programmer and programming is as simple as speaking what needs to get done.

That is the promise of AI and it’s exciting that it’s closer than ever.