>I started using Spark 1.2 for development because if you're willing to let Meta train on your data it was dirt cheap

its free on opencode and i use it for personal projects. most of my personal projects are AI generated since its personal projects. nothing important are on them. it is hilarious if Meta is training their AI model with AI generated code.

The useful training data is when you clarify your intent, when you tell the model a different approach would be better, when you consistently refactor towards Y and away from X, and so on. The training data isn’t the code, it’s the session transcript. (Anthropic would call this a “distillation attack” against their model, but in this case the model is you!)

I would imagine your interactions with it are more important than the output.

Funny. I use it through Opencode Go which gives more use than I can use, but didn't realize it was actually free on Zen. Will switch to that I guess

Every lab trains their models with AI generated code at this point.

Hopefully, 'validated' AI code

What do you think you're doing when you accept an edit, press thumbs up, or don't ask for modifications after an edit.

Thats not exactly 'validated'. Feels very noisy, it is not a good bar for either - does this code do what the user actually asked - is this code actually 'good'

There would be so many examples of coding projects that these models began or attempted to work in, that were abandoned because the models were floundering.

I would imagine the labs have some decent ways to produce novel requirements and then actually validate they are met, without the noisiness of implicit human feedback.

That said, the more I think about it, you are right, there's probably also very good ways to extract signal for all these sessions.

This is exactly what RLVR is, and the reason that models have improved so much at verifiable domains like coding and math while not so much on unverifiable ones like writing and UI design.

Training on ai generated content is how the models got a big jump in capability