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Comment by dgellow

17 hours ago

> And I mean starting from scratch, not using the messy Libreoffice code base.

Given the libreoffice codebase is in its dataset, is that really from scratch?

I guess that means none of what a professional software engineer does is from scratch either, given that they're also trained on existing code.

Kind of hard to write code when you haven't seen a lot of it.

  • The actual codebase of libreoffice is in the dataset, and a model is designed to replicate plausibility from its dataset