New job at Meta

I’m excited to announce that I started my new job at Meta as a Research Scientist on the CodeGen team in Paris, France led by Gabriel Synnaeve.

Code generation using ML got me very excited because I was always frustrated by the amount of time it was taking me to translate my ideas into code, and it became much easier in the last couple of years. I think John Carmack said in an interview that in game development, most of code written is never read by anyone because there is just too much of it. I like to imagine systems like that in which the code is generated on the fly for different use cases, optimized, tested and debugged without us directly seeing any of that. More than anything, I just want a tool that would make programming more about designing elegant systems and solutions than actually writing or debugging them.

I am particularly excited to join Meta given their strong commitment to open source AI, which I believe is crucial for ensuring democratic access to this technology. I will keep writing and publishing papers as well as releasing my code.