Reverse Engineering with ChatGPT: An Example

I’m porting Jonas Wagner‘s excellent smartcrop.js, which analyzes an image to recommend a good crop, from JavaScript to Java.

An example crop with diagnostic info, based on N. Feans

When porting code, I always try to understand it along the way so that if (when) there are bugs, I’ll have an idea of where the bug might be. I used ChatGPT 4 to untangle a particularly terse bit of code, and was — frankly — shocked at how well it did.

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