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by pylua 174 days ago
Yeah, but you can ask ai questions about it so you can understand it faster
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You are trying to check the code for hallucinations. The AI will just hallucinate back a plausible answer for your questions. It’s entirely detached from the process that generated the code so it doesn’t have any more insight than you do on it.
Works great if you’re using a very common language. I wasted more time than I care to admit trying this with a pascal code base.
You are absolutely right.