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Re:Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for oth... by amoss on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @03:12AM (#35164919)
A baseline to compare against would be googling the name of the function and reading a random result page instead of the actual code. The OP is demonstrating that the system does not rise above that baseline.
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Re:Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for oth... by Kiro on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:07AM (#35165259)
No, since OP renamed the function "float Floor( float number )" googling it wouldn't give you anything but good try.
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Re:Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for oth... by amoss on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:23AM (#35165364)
That is the point that I made - a baseline for comparison is not defining the method that produces the best understanding of the code. It is defining the worst that we would expect somebody to try.
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