Large Language Models for Code by Loubna Ben Allal at QCon London

LLMs for code completion tools have led to a significant transformation in software development methods. Open-source alternatives like CodeLlama, BigCode, and DeepSeek Coder offer transparency and access to trained models.

Ben Allal emphasized the transformer model architecture as the foundation of LLMs for coding, with pretraining on vast code corpora from platforms like GitHub. Finetuning refines models for better accuracy.

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