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Creating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder
If you’re a software developer, chances are that you’ve used GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT to solve programming tasks such as translating code from one language to another or generating a full implementation from a natural language query like “Write a Python program to find the Nth Fibonacci number”. Although impressive in their capabilities, these proprietary systems typically come with several drawbacks, including a lack of transparency on the public data used to train them and the inability to adapt them to your domain or codebase.

Fortunately, there are now several high-quality open-source alternatives! These include SalesForce’s CodeGen Mono 16B for Python, or Replit’s 3B parameter model trained on 20 programming languages. https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/starchat-alpha.md blog/starchat-alpha.md at main · huggingface/blog