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"It's not decidable" is not a guarantee that humans can do better than a compiler. It means any approach will sometimes be wrong, but a compiler might well (in principle) be wrong less often than a human.

This is separate from the "a human has a lot of additional context that's hard to express" argument, which is valid but has nothing to do with decidability.

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