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Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by coder543 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:35AM (#37249212)
You've already downloaded and tested the 7B parameter model of "code llama"? I'm skeptical.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by lddemi on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:40AM (#37249271)
Likely meta employee?
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by MertsA on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:22AM (#37249878)
I've been using this or something similar internally for months and love it. The thing that gets downright spooky is the comments believe it or not. I'll have some method with a short variable name in a larger program and not only does it often suggest a pretty good snippet of code the comments will be correct and explain what the intent behind the code is. It's just a LLM but you really start to get the feeling the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by coder543 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:04PM (#37250514)
I just don’t understand how anyone is making practical use of local code completion models. Is there a VS Code extension that I’ve been unable to find? HuggingFace released one that is meant to use their service for inference, not your local GPU.

The instruct version of code llama could certainly be run locally without trouble, and that’s interesting too, but I keep wanting to test out a local CoPilot alternative that uses these nice, new completion models.

Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by fredoliveira on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:24PM (#37253429)
There are a bunch of VSCode extensions that make use of local models. Tabby seems to be the most friendly right now, but I admittedly haven't tried it myself: https://tabbyml.github.io/tabby/
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by kateklink on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:20AM (#37260414)
there's also Refact (https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/) with support of several open-source code LLMs and extension for VS Code and Jetbrains
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by realce on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:44AM (#37249335)
Just sign up at meta and you'll get an email link in like 5 minutes
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by coder543 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:45AM (#37249346)
Yes, that's not a response to my comment.

No one who has been using any model for just the past 30 minutes would say that it has "pretty much replaced Google/SO" for them, unless they were being facetious.

Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by tyre on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:52AM (#37249458)
They said 7b llama which I read as the base LLaMa model, not this one specifically. All of these LLMs are trained on Stack Overflow so it makes sense that they’d be good out of the box.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by brandall10 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:12AM (#37249762)
The top level comment is specifically citing performance of code llama against codex.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by dataangel on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:58AM (#37249559)
GPT4 has replaced SO for me and I've been using it for months.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by Eddygandr on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:52AM (#37249447)
Maybe confused Code Llama with Llama 2?
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding by bbor on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:39AM (#37250135)
It was made available internally, I believe. So this is one of the many Meta engineers on this site —- after all, Facebook is now less hated than Google here ;)