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# OpenAI's Codex Does Not Understand Code, yet Offers Both the Ingenious and the Mundane

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## Summary

OpenAI's Codex Does Not Understand Code, yet Offers Both the Ingenious and the Mundane. You can jump to any part in this filing. This part is 3 of 26. This court case 4:22-cv-06823-JST retrieved on September 11, 2023.

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