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Ask HN: How much of LLM coding skill comes from StackOverflow?

3 points| ryeguy_24 | 10 months ago

I’m just curious. Does anyone have a rough estimate or guess of how much an LLM coding skill is attributable to Stack Overflow content (from training)?

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spooneybarger|10 months ago

I would guess a lot as the best LLM coding answers I get often can be found on SO when I start searching for similar language.

But I have not been methodical about looking into it as "when does this random token machine spit out useful results" has been my focus far more than "what are the actual texts it is pulling from"