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cogman10today at 7:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

My quick review of the 3.7B model (because I was interested) is that it's not to be trusted for coding.

It failed my basic test I like to ask models and generated incorrect code. When prompted about the bug, it preceded to start hallucinating non-existent APIs. After doing that it got caught in a loop trying to desk check the solution that didn't work.


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cogman10today at 10:01 PM

7B produced 2 answers, 1 was correct though more expensive and the second was incorrect.

The first attempt with 7B the model got stuck in an infinite loop.

dotancohentoday at 7:55 PM

I'd you have some tips for coming up with such tests, I would love to hear them. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username. Thank you!

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xienzetoday at 8:28 PM

Not sure a model that small is really supposed to be used for any real coding. At that size you're usually using the model to do simple tasks like summarization.

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