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[-] getFrog@piefed.social 39 points 6 days ago

you literally have access to all the code in the world

I'd like to believe that they were honorable enough to not secretly train on code without people's permission. But realistically they totally did exactly that, but just made the AI Model this incompetent through some other engineering blunder.

Also, random side thought - training only on public repos probably yields you way higher code quality as opposed to training on both public and private repos? I assume we all have some very messy private repos that we're too embarrassed to publish because the code quality is absolute shit ... right?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm always so extremely confused about the trope of the personal project having shit quality... Like, if I'm doing something for myself, that's exactly the place where I wanna do something amazing, like literally all my private projects have much higher quality than my work ones - because in the work ones I'm forced to use stupid conventions, old tools, am not supposed to touch "legacy" code, etc etc etc

As such, since companies have their private code on GitHub, that's where I would expect the shittiness to come from, not personal private projects.

[-] vanillama@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Maybe they meant abandoned projects that never quite got through the todo list but you're right. Even my abandoned projects are generally better than the legacy I've seen lol

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