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Ask It to Explain the Code You Already Understand

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You cannot judge an answer about something you do not know. That is the whole trouble with using a model on unfamiliar code. It explains the legacy module, the explanation is fluent, and you have no way to tell fluent from correct. So calibrate it on known ground. Take a file you wrote yourself. So…

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  1. 2026-09-11 05:21 · DEV Community — AI
    Ask It to Explain the Code You Already Understand

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