On: StableCode

[miohtama]

The model, source, etc. are available under permissive terms

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablecode-instruct-alpha...

You can “run it locally”. Very handy if you do not trust automatically sending all your code to someone in the United States.

[lolinder → miohtama]

> to reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works of the Software Products solely for your non-commercial research purposes

I wouldn't call these terms permissive. It's in line with the recent trend in released AI models, but fairly restrictive in what you're actually allowed to do with it.

[coder543 → lolinder]

The Completion model appears to place the model weights under the Apache 2 license, which is a permissive license: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablecode-completion-alp...

The Instruct model has that non-commercial restriction, but I'm not sure why. They say it was trained with Alpaca-formatted questions and responses, but I'm not sure if that includes the original Alpaca dataset.

[UncleOxidant → miohtama]

Hmmm... so on that hugging face page there's a text box where you enter input then you click the 'compute' button.

So I asked it to "Write a python function that computes the square of the input number."

And it responds with:

     def square(x):

Which seems quite underwhelming.

[layoric → UncleOxidant]

I believe that is more related to how the default Huggingface inference UI is prompting. Running locally with the correct prompt template it gives default completes, eg

``` def square(x): return x*x ```