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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by marcosdumay on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:54AM (#27700455)
> Of course, when the correctness of your program does not matter in the first place, but just its output, and you happen to be able to judge the quality of the output without knowing anything about your program...

Those are way too many words to say "never".

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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by auggierose on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:47PM (#27703706)
It's not never. Look at generative art. If you like the output, great. No need to know how the program did it (except maybe for copyright infringement issues :-)). Or if the AI proves the correctness of a program. The output is the proof, I don't need to know how the AI did it. And so on.
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