The fifth Changsha·China 1024 Programmer Festival, themed “New Ecology of Intelligent Applications,” officially kicked off on October 24 in the Xiangjiang New Area of Hunan province. This annual event has become an essential platform for global developers, facilitating consensus around technology innovation, application showcases, and industry collaborations. Each year, the festival explores different themes, addressing topics such as hard tech, open-source culture, the digital economy, computing power, and new smart infrastructure.
This year’s festival features a variety of activities including the “Yuelu Dialogues,” the Tech Heroes Meet-up, thematic summits, competitions, and exhibitions, bringing together over 200 technical professionals from around the world to discuss cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence and data technologies.
Since its inception in 2020, the “Yuelu Dialogues” has gathered top experts and scholars in technology to explore forefront topics. This year, the discussions will focus on themes like robotics and embodied intelligence, inviting leading tech figures from across the globe for in-depth conversations.
Experts attending the festival believe that the integration of engineering with models like ChatGPT, the deep fusion of software and hardware, and the extensive collaboration between IT and various vertical industries will help overcome current technological challenges. This progress is expected to expand the practical applications of multimodal intelligence, ultimately benefiting programmers.
Jiang Tao, founder and chairman of CSDN and a director of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, showcased a new era in software development during a live coding demonstration. He emphasized the shift from deterministic computing and traditional coding to a future where probabilistic computing, machine-generated code, and natural language interactions dominate. Using the InsCode tool, he demonstrated programming entirely through natural language, illustrating the transition from “writing code” to “describing needs.” “This not only allows for 80% to 90% of code to be generated by AI but also paves the way for everyone to develop personalized applications, creating a new ecosystem for mass application,” he stated.
Additionally, this year’s festival has connected with eight other cities—Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Jinan, Xi’an, and Wuhan—to host developer meet-ups, ensuring that this technological celebration reaches even more developers.
