💰 Google has a secret new project that is teaching artificial intelligence to write and fix code. It could reduce the need for human engineers in the future.

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The project, which began life inside Alphabet's X research unit and was codenamed Pitchfork, moved into Google's Labs group this summer, according to people familiar with the matter.Pitchfork is now part of a new group at Labs named the AI Developer Assistance team run by Olivia Hatalsky, a long-term X employee who worked on Google Glass and several other moonshot projects.Hatalsky, who ran Pitchfork at X, moved to Labs when it migrated this past summer.The original goal of Pitchfork was to build a tool that could update Google's Python programming language codebase to a newer version, a Google representative confirmed.Google's AI Developer Assistance program goes further by training systems to do more of the work themselves."

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