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Middle bits is not ambiguous, but CoPilot hasn't seen code for that phrase in its training so it has nothing to regurgitate.

You spelled out exactly what to do, in term of what it has seen in its training, and it was able to regurgitate a solution.

By asking question that require mathematical reasoning or are too far from the training corpus, I can create an endless list of simple problems that CoPilot can't solve.

Look at my comment history to see another one (swapping bits).




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