# Developers, Rejoice: Now AI Can Write Code for You ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) URL:: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/developers-rejoice-now-ai-can-write-code-for-you/ Author:: techrepublic.com ## Highlights > Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: > Rice University researchers created an application called BAYOU that uses deep learning to write code for programmers. > BAYOU was created with funding from the US Department of Defense. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514052)) > The system--called BAYOU--was developed by Rice University computer scientists, with funding from the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Google. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514055)) > BAYOU essentially acts as a search engine for coding, allowing developers to enter a few keywords and see code in Java that will help with their task. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514056)) > "Bayou is a considerable improvement," Chaudhuri said in the release. "A developer can give Bayou a very small amount of information -- just a few keywords or prompts, really -- and Bayou will try to read the programmer's mind and predict the program they want." > BAYOU trained itself by studying millions of lines of human-written Java code from GitHub, and draws on that to write its own code, according to the release. It is based on a method called neural sketch learning, which trains an artificial neural network to recognize high-level patterns in hundreds of thousands of Java programs. > The system can generate API idioms, or snippets of code that use APIs, in Java, according to its website. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514059)) --- Title: Developers, Rejoice: Now AI Can Write Code for You Author: techrepublic.com Tags: readwise, articles date: 2024-01-30 --- # Developers, Rejoice: Now AI Can Write Code for You ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) URL:: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/developers-rejoice-now-ai-can-write-code-for-you/ Author:: techrepublic.com ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: > Rice University researchers created an application called BAYOU that uses deep learning to write code for programmers. > BAYOU was created with funding from the US Department of Defense. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514052)) > The system--called BAYOU--was developed by Rice University computer scientists, with funding from the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Google. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514055)) > BAYOU essentially acts as a search engine for coding, allowing developers to enter a few keywords and see code in Java that will help with their task. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514056)) > "Bayou is a considerable improvement," Chaudhuri said in the release. "A developer can give Bayou a very small amount of information -- just a few keywords or prompts, really -- and Bayou will try to read the programmer's mind and predict the program they want." > BAYOU trained itself by studying millions of lines of human-written Java code from GitHub, and draws on that to write its own code, according to the release. It is based on a method called neural sketch learning, which trains an artificial neural network to recognize high-level patterns in hundreds of thousands of Java programs. > The system can generate API idioms, or snippets of code that use APIs, in Java, according to its website. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1415598653/16514059))