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josefx | 5 days ago

Wouldn't AI be trained on data using innerHTML?

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Aachen|5 days ago

My experience is that they somehow print quite modern code despite things like ES6 being too new to be standard knowledge even for me and I'm not even middle-aged yet

Maybe the last 10 years saw so much more modern code than the last cumulative 40+ years of coding and so modern code is statistically more likely to be output? Or maybe they assign higher weights to more recent commits/sources during training? Not sure but it seems to be good at picking this up. And you can always feed the info into its context window until then

skeeter2020|5 days ago

This is not my experience. Claude has been happily generating code over the past week that is full of implicit any and using code that's been deprecated for at least 2 years.

>> Maybe the last 10 years saw so much more modern code than the last cumulative 40+ years of coding and so modern code is statistically more likely to be output?

The rate of change has made defining "modern" even more difficult and the timeframe brief, plus all that new code is based on old code, so it's more like a leaning tower than some sort of solid foundation.

SahAssar|5 days ago

ES6 is 11 years old. It's not that new.

chrisweekly|5 days ago

> "ES6 being too new to be standard knowledge"

Huh? It's been a decade.

charcircuit|5 days ago

Which is why it can easily understand how innerHTML is being used so that it can replace it with the right thing.

stvltvs|5 days ago

Honest question: Is there a way to get an LLM to stop emitting deprecated code?

fragmede|5 days ago

Theoretically, if you could train your own, and remove all references to the deprecated code in the training data, it wouldn't be able to emit deprecated code. Realistically that ability is out of reach at the hobbiest level so it will have to remain theoretical for at least a few more iterations of Moore's law.