Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot…
Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always
And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the resulting change was exactly what I wanted, despite the poor instructions.
Now, I’m sure there is actually some difference, and likely this depends on the relevance of the typoed areas, and how often such typos might also appear in training data.
Why is this, you might ask?