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> they train on the code itself, the unit tests for that code If understanding the code was enough, we wouldn't have any bugs or counterintuitive behaviors. >
by 0x1ceb00da 2y ago
> they train on the code itself, the unit tests for that code
If understanding the code was enough, we wouldn't have any bugs or counterintuitive behaviors.
> and - for popular projects - thousands of examples of that library being used (and unit tested) "in the wild".
If people stopped contributing to forums, we won't have any such data for new things that are being made.
- simonw 2y agoThe examples I'm talking about come from openly licensed code in sources like GitHub, not from StackOverflow. I would argue that code in GitHub is much more useful, because it's presented in the context of a larger application and is also more likely to work.