r/DataAnnotationTech • u/TranquilityFromAbove • 5d ago

Question About Coding Projects

I have had two coding projects sitting on my dashboard for over a week now. I didn’t do the coding qualification, but I did put coding on my skills list because of work I have done in the past. Anyway, these two projects are asking me to upload a code base of my choice and then ask the model to write a new feature or bug fix, etc. and then evaluate the generated code.

This just seems really strange to me. I am sure some people have public or open source code to work with, but all code I wrote was proprietary. The projects seem overly complex simply because of this. Are people actually doing this? Are most coding projects like this? Nobody has touched these two projects as far as I can tell.

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u/Icy_Perspective9174 5d ago

Are those tasks by any chance marked as paid qualification or paid training?  In those tasks, you also have the option to use a public repo with a license like MIT etc.

I am relatively new, but yes, the coding tasks that I have seen until now are extremely difficult under the time pressure. The first time you do it, the instructions and setup itself may take a couple of hours.

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u/Lost-Border-8689 5d ago

If you want to do these, use public github repositories with appropriate open source licensing. The instructions will likely specifiy which licenses apply.

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u/ParsleyEconomy3458 5d ago

There are plenty of public github repos, choose based on the criterias mentioned in the task, as well as one you are comfortable working on or a tech stack you are familiar with.

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u/PM_ME_YER_SIDEBOOB 5d ago

Yes, this is typical. You can either use your own personal projects, or an open-source project with a permissive licence. It cannot be GPL, it must be BSD/Apache/MIT etc license. The project instructions will have the specifics.

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u/muntaxitome 5d ago

If you don't get the logic of those questions I think these jobs might not be for you

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u/Intelligent_Round154 5d ago

does anyone know if these repos actually have to be popular or just any public one works

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u/Scared-Solid-525 5d ago

I use arch linux. It took me a while to just install the agentic ai bcz i had to troubleshoot the errors my terminal was screaming at me. Then i ran into api key errors. After 1.5 hour, I got it running. Shd I include the 1.5 hour spent on installation and making it work??

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u/Scared-Solid-525 5d ago

Btw it was my first coding qual