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 2 hours 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).

	▲	Foobar8568 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You are correct, we generally say le code. To be exact at that time, I was more thinking toutes les lignes de code.

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thesz 3 hours 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.

	▲	mejutoco 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		cows are brown, from one side. https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/a-mathematical-cow-joke...

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Implicated 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 2 hours 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.