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Archive for January 29th, 2024

“Oh shit git” seems to have been succeeded by “Oh shit GitHub Copilot”: ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29

Not sure about you, but when I write code I want it to be better – way beter even – than average code.

The problem with any LLM based Generative AI is that it generates text based on the average of the past corpus they were trained with at the time they were trained.

It is exactly why I have been advocating for a while: be careful when using Generative AI, as you get generated text based on the combination of averaging over the LLM corpus with the relatively small prompt you phased trying to reflect a tiny bit of the model of the reality you are trying to write software for.

So I was not at all surprised by this article: [Wayback/Archive] New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ — Visual Studio Magazine.

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, GitHub Copilot, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Need to try “@pdfmakerapp grab this” on Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29

I missed this, hence it is now in my link archive:

[Wayback/Archive] PDFMakerApp on Twitter: “We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it out by mentioning us at the beginning of any Twitter conversation with the keyword “grab this” like below!👇”

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader Unroll Helper on Twitter: “@francvs Hi! please find the unroll here: @pdfmakerapp: We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it…  Have a good day. 🤖”

Saved thread: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @pdfmakerapp: We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it out by mentioning us at the beginni…

–jeroen

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