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| ▲ | Foobar8568 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | At least my comment hasn't been reviewed or written by a LLM. And in my French brain, code or codebase is countable and not uncountable. | | |
| ▲ | sebastiennight 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | As far as I've ever heard, "le code" used in a codebase is uncountable, like "le café" you'd put in a cup, so we would still say "meilleur que tout le code que j'ai vu en 20 ans" and not "meilleur que tous les codes que j'ai vus en 20 ans". There is a countable "code" (just like "un café" is either a place, or a cup of coffee, or a type of coffee), and "un code" would be the one used as a password or secret, as in "j'ai utilisé tous les codes de récupération et perdu mon accès Gmail" (I used all the recovery codes and lost Gmail access). | |
| ▲ | thesz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I guess you can guide it to write in any style. But what set me off is an universal qualifier: there was no code seen by you that is of equal quality or better that what LLMs generate. | | | |
| ▲ | Implicated an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I got curious and had to fire up the ol LLM to find out what the story is about the words that aren't pluralized - TIL about countable and uncountable nouns. I wonder if the guy giving you trouble about your English speaks French. | | |
| ▲ | thesz an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I speak Russian and some English, but the question was about universal quantification: author declares that LLMs generate code of better quality than "any codes" he seen in his career. | |
| ▲ | iLoveOncall 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm native French and nobody would consider code countable. "codes" makes no sense. We'd talk about "lines of code" as a countable in French just like in English. |
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| ▲ | Implicated an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You'll find, at times, that those communicating in a language that's not their primary language will tend to deviate from what one whose it was their primary language might expect. If that's obvious to you than you're just being rude. If it's not obvious to you, then you'll also find this is a common deviance (plural 'code') from those who come from a particular primary language's region. Edit; This got me thinking - what is the grammar/rule around what gets pluralized and what doesn't? How does one know that "code" can refer to a single line of code, a whole file of code, a project, or even the entirety of all code your eyes have ever seen without having to have an s tacked on to the end of it? | | |
| ▲ | tsimionescu an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | "Codes" as a way to refer to programs/libraries is actually common usage in academia and scientific programming, even by native English speakers. I believe, but am not sure, that it may just be relatively old jargon, before the use of "programs" became more common in the industry. As for the grammar rule, it's the question of whether a word is countable or uncountable. In common industry usage, "code" is an uncountable noun, just like "flour" in cooking (you say 2 lines of code, 1 pound of flour). It's actually pretty common for the same word to have both countable and uncountable versions, with different, though related, meanings. Typically the uncountable version is used with a measure of quantity, while the countable version denotes different kinds (flours - different types of flour; peoples - different groups of people). | | |
| ▲ | Implicated an hour ago | parent [-] | | > Typically the uncountable version is used with a measure of quantity, while the countable version denotes different kinds (flours - different types of flour; peoples - different groups of people). This was very helpful, thank you! (I had just gotten off the phone with Claude learning about countable and uncountable nouns but those additional details you provided should prove quite valuable) |
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| ▲ | thesz an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The question was about universal quantification, not grammar error. As if author of the comment had not seen any code that is better or of equal quality of code generated by LLMs. | | |
| ▲ | Implicated an hour ago | parent [-] | | Well now I look like an idiot. But I did learn some things! :D My apologies. |
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