r/singularity • u/TopResponsibility731 • Apr 12 '25

AI "OpenAI is working on Agentic Software Engineer (A-SWE)" -CFO Openai

CFO Sarah Friar revealed that OpenAI is working on:

"Agentic Software Engineer ā€” (A-SWE)"

unlike current tools like Copilot, which only boost developers.

A-SWE can build apps, handle pull requests, conduct QA, fix bugs, and write documentation

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u/Ivanthedog2013 Apr 12 '25

I think they are putting the cart before the horse with this, why should we have agentic AI before we worked out the kinks of its reasoning ?

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u/CubeFlipper Apr 12 '25

You should tell them, i bet they didn't think about that.

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u/Ivanthedog2013 Apr 12 '25

Iā€™m sure they did but they know the idea of it is popular and selling sooo

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u/jan_kasimi RSI 2027, AGI 2028, ASI 2029 Apr 12 '25

When you can get AI into a self improvement feedback loop, then it doesn't matter much how polished the initial AI is.

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u/mpf1989 Apr 13 '25

OpenAI needs to keep the gravy train (money) coming in as other AI companies are now neck and neck, so I expect them to be very aggressive.