After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 42 Software Development Specialty

Hao Cheng learned a little bit about it and found that this ordinary level of ability was roughly the level of a mid-level designer. To be more precise, he had design but no creativity.

After several rounds of testing and evaluation, Hao Cheng was able to understand this boundary. Many things are indeed difficult for AI.

Besides, it’s good enough to reach an average level.

"Enhance industrial design capabilities." Hao Cheng said.

[It will consume 100,000 energy points, are you sure? ]

"Sure." My daughter must be pampered. Although the energy consumed in food testing is a bit high, there are still 700,000 or 800,000 left, which is completely enough.

[Industrial design professional capabilities are enhanced, public information is being obtained... Training is in progress... Please wait... Training has been completed. 】

Hao Chengli is about to put his daughter's work into the project and let Xiaosha design and transform it according to the standards for industrial production.

In just a few minutes, a new design was produced.

"Xiaosha, what's going on?" Hao Cheng looked surprised.

When an extremely beautiful and comfortable design came into view, Hao Cheng was stunned for a moment, as if his soul had been hooked away.

"Xiaosha, what's going on? Didn't you say it was only at the intermediate level? Is the intermediate level so strong?" Hao Cheng asked.

"Xiaosha's professional ability is indeed intermediate. He can only design but has no creativity. However, the original picture gave Xiaosha creativity!"

Although there was no emotion, Xiaosha seemed to understand that this was a compliment, and his tone became light: "Secondary design with creativity and structure, framework and content is what Xiaosha is good at!"

"In that case..." Hao Cheng suddenly had a new idea.

Hao Cheng was just thinking about this when he suddenly received a message from He Gang: "Are you asleep?"

"Not yet." Hao Cheng replied with two words. As soon as he sent it out, He Gang's reply came in, talking about his intentions.

"Convert the source code of other clients to the source code of Hongmeng APP on the spot?" Hao Cheng replied in voice: "You can do it now using Xiaosha."

This thing is actually not difficult. Before Xiaosha, there were many large models that were training AI's ability to write code.

This kind of thing with clear and unified grammatical rules for various variables, keywords, etc., and measurable and controllable execution results, is one of the easiest areas for AI to train.

"You can only save 50% of the workload?" Looking at the information sent by He Gang, Hao Cheng muttered, "Your requirements are quite high."

For Hao Cheng, it is not difficult at all to improve Xiaosha's programming ability. It is nothing more than upgrading a professional ability.

Hao Cheng asked Xiaosha about the special ability of program development, which is the lowest level ability. Even the energy value for upgrading can be discounted by 50%, and it only costs 50,000.

That’s right, because even without upgrading, Xiaosha’s ability to read code is already very strong.

What is needed now is to write the same function in another language based on the understanding.

"Software development special ability, then upgrade it!" Hao Cheng thought about it and decided to meet their wishes. He was also ready to open the second ability to users as a profession in due course. This thing is really simple, and even the training materials are much less than other abilities. It only needs to invest in official documents, some source code examples, etc.

And the enhancement was completed in just five minutes.

“The more certain something is, the easier it is for AI.”

Hao Cheng muttered, "Program code is so rigid that even a single symbol can't be wrong. And if it is correct and there are no bugs, the result will be the same no matter where it is run.

"Legal services do not have this feature. For the same case, different regions and different judges may have different final results.

"In this case, one language has been developed, and converting it to another language is almost the scenario that AI is best at, and there is no other. This is even much simpler than clearly specifying the requirements and asking AI to write code."

After testing the efficiency of the conversion, Hao Cheng called He Gang and said, "It can be done. It can save about 95% of the workload. The whole process is almost automatic, except for a few individual links.

"However, one thing needs to be explained in advance. This code conversion is actually a rewrite of the original functions. For example, if the source code of Android is rewritten into the source code of Hongmeng client, the functions on both sides will be exactly the same.

“Your unique features, such as one-end development and multi-end deployment, interconnection of various subsystems, and adaptive loading of content in different regions and modules according to the screen size of different devices, are definitely not available because the original APP does not have them.

"If you want these capabilities, you definitely need people to develop them independently."

"Of course I know that." He Gang said immediately: "Even if software manufacturers develop their own software, it is not easy to adapt to the new features of Hongmeng. They all rewrite a Hongmeng version based on the Android or IOS client.

"As for the new capabilities of Hongmeng system, most apps don't use them. The key is to solve the problem of whether they have them or not. We can also accept optimizing the exclusive capabilities of Hongmeng in subsequent version updates."

Hao Cheng also discovered this phenomenon, which is extremely obvious on tablets. What kind of APPs are developed? They are just a shell that is put on the computer. They only solve the problem of whether they exist or not, but do not even solve the problem of whether they can be used.

To be honest, it would be better to let Xiaosha rewrite it now!

"As long as you can accept it." Hao Cheng nodded.

"So...how long will it take for you?" He Gang asked tentatively.

"You asked, but you still tried to test it. Really." Hao Cheng said directly: "The day after tomorrow, I plan to update the second professional ability of Zhifeng Liusha - program development.

"My plan is this: for personal use, it's still 16 yuan per month, but the personal version cannot be used for the development of large-scale commercial software.

"For the Enterprise Edition, I'm going to charge a higher price this time, 1999 per month per account, and it will be limited to use between 9am and 5pm every day."

As soon as He Gang heard this, he knew that Hao Cheng must have considered the issue of programmers' careers. It could save 90% to 996% of the workload. If it was left alone, the company would really dare to lay off % of the people and still let the employees work overtime .

This is an idealist, He Gang muttered and shook his head, but when he thought about it, it was not wrong to do so. If you want to do big things at any time, you can't just consider your own profits without considering social responsibility.

"Then we are here..."

Before He Gang spoke, Hao Chengji said: "For a period of one year, small and medium-sized enterprises can convert their existing Hongmeng APP without this restriction. After a year, the Hongmeng ecosystem should catch up, especially with such a powerful tool.

"In addition, we can provide you with an interface so that you can integrate it into your own development tools. As for the cost, we can discuss it separately."

(End of this chapter)