You still have to read the code

Model-generated explanations can be fluent and wrong in exactly the places where implementation details encode intent

u still have to read the code btw. not all of it and not all the time. but it remains very common for models to sort of not understand ur intent in ways that leads to them giving very good descriptions of clearly incorrect implementations.
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