Codex is a powerful coding agent, but I wonder why even when I give it full access to files on my PC, it sometimes produces Python, C++, or Fortran code with syntax errors. Usually the errors are easily fixable. I know it is often invoking the Python interpreter or C++ or Fortran compiler in the background, so how does invalid code slip through? Why doesn’t it alway iterate until syntactically valid code is produced?
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Why does Codex sometimes produce code with syntax errors?
Remember that during training many programming languages were used for training and many of the popular mainstream imperative programming languages have very similar syntax. As such if the input sequence does not have enough detail to produced the needed output sequence you will get some bugs.
Have you tired using a different model? (Rhetorical question)
Have you tried using skills? (Rhetorical question)
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