Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 months ago

    I’ve found coding assistance to be pretty lacklustre myself as well. That said, one area where language models might actually be good is emulating a type system for dynamic languages. Given how good these things are at figuring out general shape of the code, I suspect they could fairly accurately tell you argument and return types for functions. And you could probably get away with a pretty small model if it only targets a specific language.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    How do the SaaS AI code assistants work? I am guessing they have to send the entire file or the codebase to their datacenter. Won’t this be a problem for corporations who want to protect their codebase?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 months ago

      I think it’s definitely an issue that the code gets sent over. While, as onoki points out, the providers promise to keep the data private this still opens up a problem that their infrastructure could be compromised.