> why hasn't anyone done this for real?

WDYM? LLMs are essentially this.

Most LLMs are trained on a lot of the source code for many open-source projects. This 'project' has the whole song-and-dance about never seeing the source code and separating the system to skirt around legal trouble. Why didn't anyone do that yet?

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imiric an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Because that's impossible. Any "robot" that can generate code must be trained on massive amounts of code, most of which is open source.

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sdwr 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

And how are you supposed to guarantee equivalent functionality by analyzing "README files, API docs, and type definitions"?

	▲	dymk 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The joke is that you don’t.

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preisschild 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

not a lot of code is public domain and thus not a lot of training data is available