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by herdrick 1407 days ago
Correct, that's why you use the large dataset available to you -- tons of runtime data from production.
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It would seem like that's getting the types too late to be useful, but in practice most code goes into production in stages, so you could start getting this probabilistic typing data from code that has rolled out in a limited way, for example features that are hidden to most users.