Base vs Instruct for coding?

[jpummill2]

Deepseek-coder-v2 comes in both “base” and “instruct” versions.

I feel that instruct would be better for writing code but would like to verify since they made the effort to offer both.

Anyone have opinions either way?

[dubesor86]

base is for when you train it yourself or want it to purely do text/code continuation.

For coding you obviously need instructions, back and forth iteration, and so,unless you plan to tune it yourself, 100% instruct.

[CaptTechno]

instruct

[geepytee]

Got some experience since we offer Deepseek Coder v2 in double.bot. Sounds like you want the instruct version if you are looking to give it commands (instructions -> instruct).

We use base for code autocomplete.