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frevibtoday at 6:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Whst is this bit of code doing?

This only applies to bad code. A formal programmic language beats an informal language anytime. Why on earth would you translate an unambiguous formal language to English?

> Is there a risk of data leaking here?

> Are permissions enforced downstream of this function?

If you trust AI to give you that answer, you are going to run into serious issues.


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raincoletoday at 6:22 PM

> Why on earth would you translate an unambiguous formal language to English?

Why on earth are all the books about programming, science and math written in English (and other natural languages) instead of a formal one then?

Why on earth did comments even got invented?

dghlsakjgtoday at 6:54 PM

A formal programmic language beats an informal language anytime. Why on earth would you write a comment in an ambiguous informal language when you could translate it to code?

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