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Re:Visual programming should start in the debugger by gumby on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:03PM (#41009256)
People talk about using LLMs to write code, but is there any work on using RNNS (perhaps LLMs) to explain what a piece of code does? Seems like that might be a good feature for a debugger.
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Re:Visual programming should start in the debugger by kragen on Friday July 19, 2024 @08:13PM (#41012837)
i've found gpt-4 to be mediocre at writing code but superb at explaining it
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Re:Visual programming should start in the debugger by ben_w on Saturday July 20, 2024 @09:49AM (#41016489)
I've tried that — copy paste in code, ask it to explain what it does.

This worked (with the original ChatGPT 3.5) about as well as asking it to write code if you did the documentation first. Not great, not terrible, misses more precisely when you want the most help.

I should try again with 4o.

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