It's kind of vague. It would be better if he used a concrete example to illustrate how AI help programming.
From my other comment (in this case the example was an amazon like shopping site):
> The thing I would like to get working is telling the net "here is a ton of different buttons, grids, lists and a lot of other UI stuff, and there are all our products - I want to maximize revenue - do whatever you like to get there".
The way of telling a neural network these things would be these few lines of code which would hook up different parts to get it working.
How is your 'project codebase markup' any different from filling in some radio buttons on a template generator or a CMS?