A surprisingly effective way to understand unfamiliar code is to translate, line by line, into another language. The trick is getting to an initial minimal runnable program, and thereafter it's all incremental.

Mar 18, 2022 · 3:09 PM UTC

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but doesn’t this take too long?
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Is this true with or without DaVinci model?
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Minimal runnable program (MRP). I like that.
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Copilot is very helpful when doing this manually
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Or just learn refactoring.
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Its more easier to reinforce by trying to understand the data flow. Ie. The input data, how and what's stored in the variable and the output.
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I faced same problem and thought to build something with GPT-3 to solve this. So I build Explane-A GPT-3 based code explainer that helps me to understand unfamiliar and dense code.
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