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Is automatic code generation LLM?
I'd be into a video about how to do that without falling into the pitfalls
Not at all. In my case, automatic code generation is a process of automated parsing of an existing Ruby on Rails API code plus some machine-readable comments/syntax I created in the RoR codebase. The way this API was built and versioned, no existing Gem could be used to generate docs. The code generation part is a set of C# "templates" and a parser I built. The parser takes the Ruby API code plus my comments, and generates unit and integration tests for nUnit. This is probably the most common use case for automatic code generation. But... doesn't building unit tests based on existing code potentially create a bad unit test? I'm glad you asked!
The API endpoints are vetted and have their own RoR tests. We rebuilt this API in something more performant than Ruby before we moved it to the cloud. I also built generators that output ASP.NET API endpoint stubs with documentation. So the stubs just get filled out and the test suite is already built. Run Swashbuckle on the new code and out comes the OpenAPI spec, which is then used to build our documentation site and SDKs. The SDKs and docs site are updated in lockstep with any changes to the API.
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That is really cool! I am not educated enough to understand details. But is it similar to how a compiler uses high level syntax to generate low level assembly code?
Is compiling a type of automatic code generation?
This is an apt comparison, actually.
This is also an apt comparison. Most modern languages are interpreted rather than compiled. C#*, Java, Ruby, Python, Perl... these all sit on top of runtimes or virtual machines such as .NET or JVM. Compilation is a process of turning human-readable language into assembly. Interpreting turns human-readable programming language into instructions for the runtime; in the case of .NET, C# gets interpreted into MSIL which tells the .NET runtime what to do, which in turn tells the hardware what to do.
Automatic code generation is more of "Hey computer, look at that code. Now translate that code to do different things, but use these templates I made."
FWIW, compilers was two semesters in engineering school, so I'm trying to keep this discussion accessible.
*Before anyone rightfully and correctly jumps on my shit about C#, yes, I know C# is technically a compiled language.
Thanks, this is all very interesting. I never knew what .NET was before. Now it makes sense that programs require you to host the specific runtime required for that version of the instructions for the runtime to work.