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> It will reliably produce apt python code using tenforty that you can drop into a notebook and take from there.

Reliably? And how do they know it's reliable?

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Well, there weren't any compile errors.

If only my code reviews were this easy.

LGTM

Works on my machine

that is necessary, but not sufficient, for the program to be correct, aka “reliable“.

Not in python it isn't.

I was surprised the first time I learned that Python will actually refuse to compile:

  def fibonacci(n):
     return n

because it knows that the Fibonacci sequence doesn't work that way. It's a fantastic language.

If it’s valid utf8 I consider it ready for production.

Decades of optimizing compilers, static analyzers, and software engineering practices when the solution to quality was right under our noses all along.

Just a couple of warnings.

It can just be saying that it produces code instead of non-code.

And how do they know it _reliably_ produces code instead of non-code?

I could tell you I back out of my driveway without looking every day and I reliably don't run people over.

I have bad news for you about the average tax preparer.

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