Yes and no.
In many cases (like for the Gradle DSL, that can be both the old Groovy-based one or the new Kotlin-based one) it is sufficient to specify which version you’re using and, as long as this doesn’t get too far in its context window forcing you to repeat it, you are good to go.
But for niche libraries that have recently undergone significant refactors with the majority of the tutorials and examples still built with past versions, they have a huge bias towards the old syntax, making it really difficult - if not impossible - to make them use the new functions (at least for ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot with the “Web search” functionality on).
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Subjectively speaking, I don’t see it so that good a job of being current or priortizing current over older.
While RAG is the way to give LLM a shot at staying current, I just didn’t see it doing that good a job with library documentation. Maybe it can do all right with tweaks like additional properties or arguments, but more structural changes to libraries I just don’t see being handled.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exactly. It’s an very niche library (tmap for R) and just was completely overhauled. Gemini, chatGPT and Copilot all seem pretty confused and mix up the old and new syntax
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thats a lot on implementation of the LLM engine . For python or js you can feed the API schema of the entire virtual environment.