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.
I'm kind of surprised nobody's tried doing this yet.
#technology #programming #machinelearning #llm
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