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I got curious and had to fire up the ol LLM to find out what the story is about the words that aren't pluralized - TIL about countable and uncountable nouns. I wonder if the guy giving you trouble about your English speaks French.

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I speak Russian and some English, but the question was about universal quantification: author declares that LLMs generate code of better quality than "any codes" he seen in his career.

LLMs got their training data from somewhere. But maybe they’re good at percolating the good code to the top and filtering the bad code.

I'm native French and nobody would consider code countable. "codes" makes no sense. We'd talk about "lines of code" as a countable in French just like in English.

Codes is a proper grammatical word in English, but we don’t use it in reference to general computer programming.

You can for example have two different organizations with different codes of conduct.

There is though nothing technically wrong with seeing each line of code as an complete individual code and referring to then multiple of them as codes.

Codes can be synonymous with codebases and is grammatically just fine, though probably not the most common usage.

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