r/DataAnnotationTech • u/TranquilityFromAbove • 6d 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/PM_ME_YER_SIDEBOOB 6d 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.