Tagged code-generation
4 write-ups.
Searching for a Program Instead of Generating One
A primitive algebra searched from examples solved five of twenty-eight exercises, and every one already had a hand-written implementation in the same repo. A behavioural index recognised one function in forty-eight, and zero of eleven when handed other people's correct solutions to the same exercises.
When a Test Suite Rejects a Correct Program
Eleven of twenty-one operations never passed my frozen checks, and I wrote that up twice as a limit of the generator. A wrapper that only re-expressed each program's own stdout repaired 90 of 102 failures, changing no algorithm.
Why a Small Transformer Can't Copy a Word It Hasn't Seen
An 11.9M-parameter transformer scores 83% strict on the domains it trained on and 0/8 on a single unseen noun. Three experiments to find out why, one of which corrected the diagnosis I had already written down, and a zero-parameter mechanism that does the copying 20 times out of 20.
An App Generator That Verifies Everything Except Its Parser
A natural-language app generator whose verification sweep is exhaustive over everything except the part that reads English. The composer scores 100% on 810 cells built from feature sets; the parser that has to produce those feature sets scores 0.70, and nothing prints that number next to the other one.