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by Philpax 798 days ago
1) It does not need to solve every issue to be useful; it just needs to surface some issue that a human reviewer can then validate. It's seen a lot of code; it can find common issues.

2) The specific issue you're talking about is because they don't see letters, they see tokens, which are groups of letters / subwords. It can't count those because it can't actually "see" what it's counting. This is being worked on as well.