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Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology
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It says what you want to hear. Sure, it can help sometimes, but those cases are very rare and are mostly info related things, that you (me) might be too lazy to google and go through pages of results.
I've fed it scripts and programs that have flaws in them and asked it to check them, it says it will run... each and every time. If the mistakes are syntaxical, it will point to them, but other than that, it won't correct logical mistakes (what the output will be) unless you point it to the mistake, in which case, yes it will correct it, but that's not the point, the point is for it to tell me that this thing might run, but it won't do anything of value or it will return garbled results.