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by extr 781 days ago
Yeah this is a similar phenomenon. AI is not so good at recognizing that you're looking for the "general" solution to the problem, one that will holistically fit in with the rest of the codebase/objective, and what has been provided as an example is really just a special case.

I think part of the problem is that instruction fine tuning is not done on full codebases, just shorter problems that fit into reasonable (8K, 32K) context windows. By nature these problems are more specific, so they are biased in that direction from the start.