A Additional Details and Results for Code Generation Experiments

Figure 7: Actual example of how an anchor function impacts the generated solution. We construct the anchor function by taking the function signature from the HuamnEval prompt (blue), removing the docstring and variable typing, appending n lines of the canonical solution (green), then adding anchoring lines (red). We prompt Codex with the anchor function, the HumanEval prompt, and the first n lines of the canonical solution (above black line). The full canonical solution is on the right (green text, grey box). We see that the solution Codex generates (below black line) combines elements of the canonical solution (e.g.