Interesting news for the lazier, armchair programmers out there: the appropriately named “Pix2Code” is an application created by a neural network that can generate code automatically when it’s fed with screenshots of a GUI. The article suggests that it’s superior to humans because it can create code for Android, iOS, and “web-based technologies”: apparently, most coders only know how to craft for one platform. This may already exist, but I would like to see a version for web design: just create a layout in Photoshop and have an application translate it to the proper HTML and CSS.



Artificial intelligence is threatening worker’s jobs in dozens of different professions, from manufacturing and legal to banking and driving, and many more. Now, it’s time to add programming to that list. A new neural network being built by a Danish startup called UIzard Technologies IVS has created an application that can transform raw designs of graphical user interfaces into actual source code that can be used to build them. It uses cutting-edge machine learning technologies to create a neural network that can generate code automatically when it’s fed with screenshots of a GUI.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – AI Creates Programs from Simple Screenshots