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by iasay 1466 days ago
Was this even useful? I have to review a lot of absolute shit from humans. I can’t even imagine the damage that such a large corpus of humans plus an AI can generate.
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It's useful in the right hands - it can suggest functions/language features you don't know about it, it can do some handy stuff automatically (like reverse a list in place) so you have more mental bandwidth to think about other stuff.

It also produces a ton of horrible, nonsense code. I totally agree that if github's corpus starts to fill with that stuff, the overall quality of github will tank and I wonder how they'll continue to train the model.

That’s really my worry. ML is crap in crap out. If you train it with more crap it’s an exponential decaying curve.

Now I have to gate declining quality marketed as a time saver. It really just moves the cost elsewhere.