alt Hacker NewsNot for generating it, because the more it looks like prose the more the LLM's output will be influenced by all the prose it's ingested.
Not for generating it, because the more it looks like prose the more the LLM's output will be influenced by all the prose it's ingested.
I've used o365 copilot to analyze a COBOL app I had source code to, and it was great at explaining how the code worked. Made writing an interface to it a breeze with some sample code and I swear I am not a COBOL person, I'm just the Linux guy trying to help a buddy out...
It also does a reasonable job of generating working COBOL. I had to fix up just a few errors in the data definitions as the llm generated badly sized data members, but it was pretty smooth. Much smoother than my experiences with llm's and Python. What a crap shoot Python is with llm's...