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Answer by Karl Knechtel for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting assistant

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Even with an honestly asked (but poor and unsuitable) question, the results are quite poor:

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Aside from doing very good copy-editing, the only thing the editor got right is to remove the apology and note about technical difficulties. There is still much more noise in the question, and the link has not been inlined. Meanwhile, the new version has introduced a potential inaccuracy: it claims that the code was "found" on GitHub, whereas OP did not actually disclaim authorship. (Since the repository is a few years old, and the username does not match, this indeed is probably not OP's code.)

Even in a hypothetical world in which we accepted questions with off-site code, that were work orders to implement a feature in someone else's code - that is really just not acceptable.

A skilled human curator would, in that hypothetical world (rather than downvoting, voting to close etc.), produce Markdown more like this instead:

How can I modify [this script](https://github.com/jer805/Working-Memory-Removal/blob/master/digits/digits.py) to allow changing the number of squares - say, up to twelve - rather than always using three?

If I try feeding that back in, the AI proposes that it isn't wordy enough:

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I'm... not very impressed.


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