Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

In Python code generation, for instance, the researchers' architecture enabled a small, open-source model to outperform a specialized, commercial closed-source model that is more than double its size.

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A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

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