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I won't rightly describe the confusion your post gives me. Nothing he says seems contradictory. It produces good looking code which upon further inspection has
by hungryforcodes 4y ago
I won't rightly describe the confusion your post gives me. Nothing he says seems contradictory. It produces good looking code which upon further inspection has faulty logic.
You would expect that from a program that copies a database of all the examples in the world (or whatever) and then just does an autocomplete without any kind of comprehension of what the problem is that is trying to be solved.
No confusion or contradiction at all.
- omginternets 4y agoSo, the problem is that it produces incorrect code…
- karpierz 4y agoSpecifically, the problem is it produces _almost_ correct code, which is worse than incorrect code because it might fool you into trusting it.
- omginternets 4y agoQuite. So we agree that this code is incorrect, and thus, that we have a contradiction on our hands. To be clear: we’re in agreement that incorrect code that passes for correct at a glance is even worse than obviously-incorrect code.
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