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Re:Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than an... by RugnirViking on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:55AM (#50367410)
> Can you give an example of what you wanted explained

Something I do dozens of times a day: "Please explain what this PR does, I haven't read it"

it will make me 20 pages of gibberish about caches, correctness checking, race conditions, github action runners, tradeoffs between a bunch of invented terminology internal to the PR without defining the terms- you'd have to have already read the code to know what it was referring to

without ya know, explaining it. I ask my colleague and he says something like "oh it deletes records from such-and-such a system when they aren't needed anymore after a merge" and I know exactly what he means. A single well composed sentence was all that was needed.

You can ask the agent for a single sentence explanation and it will write something like "linked candidate records are trimmed when canonical record determination window is passed"

The agent has full context of what systems the code talks to, our terminology sheet etc. It just pathologically cannot simplify things down

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