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  > LLM code is higher quality than any codes I have seen in my 20 years in F500.
"Any codes"?
At least my comment hasn't been reviewed or written by a LLM.

And in my French brain, code or codebase is countable and not uncountable.

As far as I've ever heard, "le code" used in a codebase is uncountable, like "le café" you'd put in a cup, so we would still say "meilleur que tout le code que j'ai vu en 20 ans" and not "meilleur que tous les codes que j'ai vus en 20 ans".

There is a countable "code" (just like "un café" is either a place, or a cup of coffee, or a type of coffee), and "un code" would be the one used as a password or secret, as in "j'ai utilisé tous les codes de récupération et perdu mon accès Gmail" (I used all the recovery codes and lost Gmail access).

You are correct, we generally say le code. To be exact at that time, I was more thinking toutes les lignes de code.
> As far as I've ever heard, "le code" used in a codebase is uncountable

Now I can't get the Pulp Fuction dialog out of my head.

- Do you know what they call code in France?

- No

- Le code

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I guess you can guide it to write in any style.

But what set me off is an universal qualifier: there was no code seen by you that is of equal quality or better that what LLMs generate.

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