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That's interesting, I've seen a few papers about this. I'm personally curious about editing syntax trees using language models, since it would prevent syntax errors altogether.

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In my limited use, I've never seen these models (chatgpt, and github copilot) generate invalid syntax. I don't see much to improve there

I do see them generate code that fails the type checker though.

For editing code there's a decent chance of syntax errors or undefined variables since it's only modifying a subset of the code.

Which papers?

Here's some of the papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09983 and https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.384.pdf

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