Are folks using #ai copilots for generating code successfully? Mine gets confused on syntax a bunch but it's a local model which is general rather than code specific. Like I wonder if I am prompting it poorly or something
@mauve are you using ollama? There are many coding models you could easily pull and try out. It also features lots of Integrations into IDEs and text editors.
@hermeticvm Yeah I'm using continue.dev with ollama and phi3
Previously I used some 7B models that were just too slow.
The starcoder model has been giving okay suggestions once in a while but is super slow still. Deepseek seems to be too dumb to do anything useful.
@hermeticvm Cool to hear ty for sharing. Is your code published somewhere I may read?
Today I was trying to get it to generate some cli commands in Node.js (this is with phi3+continue via ollama) but t has trouble adhering to the specific syntax and structure I wanted it to use.
I found a big issue for me has been hallucinated packages or APIs within packages. Maybe doing multi step stuff where inject context from api docs could help there.
@mauve I built a simple python app taking various file inputs in format x,y,z and convert it to a clean epub with the partial help of ChatGPT and codellama2 to covert to a specific open format and it worked pretty well. I didn't use any IDE integration but instead prompted them to be a guidance instead of writing the entire code autonomously.
Great to learn and I don't end up with code I don't understand and thus can't fix.