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Comment by moffkalast a day ago

That first one has always felt super crazy to me, I've figured out what lots of "arcane magic, don't touch" type of functions genuinely do since LLMs have become a thing.

Even if it's slightly wrong it's usually at least in the right ballpark so it gives you a very good starting point to work from. Almost everything is explainable now.

epolanski a day ago

I can relate, I have been genuinely amazed more than once by how it could "understand" some very complex code nobody dared to touch like you mention.

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moffkalast a day ago

Kinda reminds me of that Glados quote, haha:
"These next tests require cooperation. Consequently, they have never been solved by a human. That's where you come in. You don't know pride, you don't know fear, you don't know anything. You'll be perfect."
It takes someone with no ego, no preconceptions, and infinite patience to delve in and come back alive.

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sherburt3 a day ago

Agreed, AI has been a godsend for trying to understand snippets of perl code in our codebase that were basically unreadable before unless you were an expert.

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