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Sure. Is Google Translate used only by serious professional translators who have a rigorous translation-checking process? Not at all. And as you say, it will b
by wpietri 5y ago
Sure. Is Google Translate used only by serious professional translators who have a rigorous translation-checking process? Not at all.
And as you say, it will be the same with programmers. Who's this being targeted at? People "working in a new language or framework, or just learning to code". The whole value prop is, "You don't have to know what's going on!"
The important difference is that the target readers can usually spot an egregiously bad translation. But the target users for software cannot easily spot gaping security holes and other serious issues until something bad happens.
- tylersmith 5y ago> The whole value prop is, "You don't have to know what's going on!" The value proposition is a better tab completion. It's not autopilot.
- naniwaduni 5y ago> The important difference is that the target readers can usually spot an egregiously bad translation. What, no, that's not true at all, that's like the second biggest problem. GTL routinely does stuff like invert the meaning of clauses, or drop information, or hallucinate absent context. Target readers can't reasonably be expected to catch any of that.
- wpietri 5y agoIn which case it's not an egregiously bad translation, it's a subtly bad one. Progress of a sort, I guess!