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Using AI tools such as Large Language Models to help write code.

2022

AI assisted learning: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

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I’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT.

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Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

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One of my favourite uses for the GPT-3 AI language model is generating explanations of how code works. It’s shockingly effective at this: its training set clearly include a vast amount of source code.

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