Pitchfork was built for “teaching code to write and rewrite itself,” according to internal materials seen by Insider. The tool is designed to learn programming styles and write new code based on those learnings, according to people familiar with it and patents reviewed by Insider.
“The team is working closely with the Research team,” a Google representative said. “They’re working together to explore different use cases to help developers.”
The project’s goals shifted over time to a general-purpose system that could still reduce the need for humans to write and update code while maintaining code quality. In job postings for X from late last year, Hatalsky said she was working on a team “building the future of software engineering.”
