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I fed it a small snippet of Python code, and I got this back (edited to fix syntax errors):

  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

  ax = plt.Axes()
  ax.set_xlabel(name='Person ')
  ax.set_ylabel(name='Name ')

  plt.scatter([df.name, ax.x(1/2)).sum(), ax.y(1/2))

  plt.col, ax.rect(name='Name')
  ax.show()

It doesn't make total sense, but it's so cool to see that AI has seemingly learned to use the matplotlib API, save for some unbalanced parentheses :-)

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It seems pretty good at matching parens and braces for C code, although it decided it was finished before outputting the closing brace for the function (the prompt was just the signature):

  void send_file(int* fd) { 
    int file_type; 
    char *file_name; 
    size_t name_len; 
    FILE *fp; 
    char *name = NULL; 
    if(fmt::error_code != 0) 
      return error("Could not set file type"); 
    fp = &file->fp; 
    size_t file_size = fprintf(fp, "%02x", fp->fname); 
    if(fp->fname == fp->fname || _FTP_FILE_TYPE == 0) { 
      fp->fp->fname = 0; // Do nothing for errors 
    } 
    /* Write some info to fp */ 
    fp->fp->fd = calloc(1, fd) + (1 + file_size); 
    fp->fp->sig = calloc(1, &file->sig); 
    fp->fp->buf = (int *)((size_t)sizeof(*fp)); 
    /* Make sure fp isn't open */ 
    if(!fp->closed) { 
      // Close fd with error() 
      fp = new(FTP_FDCALLTYPE) void(1); 
      fp->fdclose((void *)&fp); 
      return; 
    } 
    fp->fp->buf_len = file_size; 
    fp->fp->name = name; 
    file_name = name; 
    fp->fp->cwd = nullptr; 
    /* Don't close fd after this point */ 
    fp->fp->fdclose(fprintf(f, "fd open", TRUE));

Not too bad, but I'm not worried about losing my job to a language model anytime soon.

Not saying you should be worried, but this model is not the one that would be in the running for your job, in case that ever happened

I wonder if you could make an RL version of a GPT-2 model specifically optimized for code, where you try to compile the output and penalize whenever there is an exception/error that's thrown.

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