Just make sure you follow the steps in order. ... Elon Musk’s ‘Algorithm,’ a 5-Step Process to Dramatically ... managers of software teams must spend at least 20 percent of their time coding.

It’s useful to have AI come up with a new sorting algorithm; it’s a much bigger deal to build an AI that can learn how to write state-of-the-art code across a variety of tasks, he says.

The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year the company used a version of its ...