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by fl7305 1176 days ago
> I've started to suspect that generating code is actually one of the easier things for a predictive text completion model to achieve.

> Programming languages are a whole lot more structured and predictable than human language.

> In JavaScript the only token that ever comes after "if " is "(" for example.

But isn't that like saying that it's easy to generate English text, all you need is a dictionary table where you randomly pick words?

(BTW, keep up the blog posts, I really enjoy them!)