# Hugging Face — Creating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-05-09
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/starchat-alpha
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2065-creating-a-coding-assistant-with-starcoder
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: StarCoder, StarChat
- Context window: 8,192 token context length

To fine-tune the open-source StarCoder model to create a conversational coding assistant called StarChat, highlighting the use of chat markup language and prompt engineering.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/starchat-alpha:

> In this blog post, we'll show how StarCoder can be fine-tuned for chat to create a personalised coding assistant! Dubbed StarChat, we'll explore several technical details that arise when using large language models (LLMs) as coding assistants, including:

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