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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by 0x1ceb00da on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:30AM (#41828332)
> they train on the code itself, the unit tests for that code

If understanding the code was enough, we wouldn't have any bugs or counterintuitive behaviors.

> and - for popular projects - thousands of examples of that library being used (and unit tested) "in the wild".

If people stopped contributing to forums, we won't have any such data for new things that are being made.

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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by simonw on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:06PM (#41829130)
The examples I'm talking about come from openly licensed code in sources like GitHub, not from StackOverflow.

I would argue that code in GitHub is much more useful, because it's presented in the context of a larger application and is also more likely to work.

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