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It actually succeeds and solves it perfectly fine despite writing all these unconfident disclaimers about itself! My screenshot: https://x.com/Skiminok/status/1975688789164237012


To clarify: Excel FlashFill uses an earlier version of this engine, with a similar but less advanced algorithm. The current engine that powers strans (PROSE) can, for instance, solve the infamous "January" task without errors


Thanks for the explanation. And hi, Alex (cool to meet again here on HN)!


And if you want a deeper dive after that, here's a 100-page survey of all the techniques, principles, and applications of program synthesis circa 2017:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/program...


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Thanks!


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