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Foobar8568 | on: LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
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.

sebastiennight | parent | next
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).

Foobar8568 | root | parent | next
You are correct, we generally say le code. To be exact at that time, I was more thinking toutes les lignes de code.
troupo | root | parent
> 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

ahartmetz | root | parent
As an additional wrinkle, the word seems quite French in origin in this case.
thesz | parent | next
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.

Implicated | parent | next
I got curious and had to fire up the ol LLM to find out what the story is about the words that aren't pluralized - TIL about countable and uncountable nouns. I wonder if the guy giving you trouble about your English speaks French.
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raincole | parent
Quite sure they're not criticizing your grammar, but your substance.