AI Code Assistants Struggle to Keep Up with Modern Programming: New Tool Reveals Major Gaps

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Overview

• CodeSync identifies outdated code patterns in Python libraries
• Creates benchmark (CodeSyncBench) with 3,300 test cases across 220 APIs
• Tests 14 leading language models on code evolution tasks
• Reveals major challenges in keeping AI models current with API changes
• Provides 2,200 training samples for instruction tuning

Plain English Explanation

Think of large language models as really smart programming assistants. But like any assistant working from old textbooks, they can get stuck using outdated information. CodeSync is li...

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