!!Con West 2020: Nick Fitzgerald - Writing Programs! That Write Other Programs!!

Presented at !!Con West 2020: http://bangbangcon.com/west Why write programs when you can write a program to write programs for you? And that program writes programs that are faster than the programs you’d write by hand. And that program’s programs are actually, you know, correct. Wow! Yep, it’s time to synthesize. But this ain’t Moog, this is program synthesis. What is that, and how can it upgrade our optimizers into super-optimizers? We’ll find out!! #bangbangcon #bangbangconwest #bangbangconwest2020