Codegen raises new cash to automate software engineering tasks
Jay Hack, an AI researcher with a background in natural language processing and computer vision, came to the realization several years ago that large language models (LLMs) -- think OpenAI's GPT-4 or ChatGPT -- have the potential to make developers more productive by translating natural language requests into code. With the help of a small team, Hack slowly expanded these experiments into a platform, Codegen, that attempts to automate as many mundane, repetitive software engineering tasks as possible leveraging LLMs. "Codegen automates the menial labor out of software engineering b...