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Would that application not exist in the training data already?

The are around three Golang HTTP2.0 servers on Github, but it wasn't just regurgitating the application from memory, as if it was then it would have been mostly correct first try, and it wouldn't have needed to spend 80%+ of the development time in a code-compile-test cycle of fixing bugs identified by integration tests and spec conformance tests.

So you are saying that LLMs have no capacity to re-use existing work, and will just burn hours and money re-inventing wheels?

Welcome to The Future™!

If you tell it to reinvent the wheel, it will.

If you tell it to use existing libraries (and they are in its training data) it will do that instead.

If you tell it about libraries it hasn't encountered before it can use those instead.

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