A new open source AI code generation tool, AlphaCodium, was inspired by Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode (and AlphaCode 2, which launched last month powered by Gemini) but has now surpassed it, setting X/Twitter all aflutter this week.
“We are one step closer to having AI generate code better than humans!” posted Santiago Valdarrama,. “The results put AlphaCodium as the best approach to generate code we’ve seen. It beats DeepMind’s AlphaCode and their new AlphaCode2 without needing to fine-tune a model!”
And OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy, who was previously director of AI at Tesla, highlighted the tool’s ‘flow engineering’ method to improve code generation — “moving from a naive prompt:answer paradigm to a ‘flow’ paradigm, where the answer is constructed iteratively.”
