the_tyler•7mo ago

My faith in AI debugging tools just took a hit

I relied on one to clean up my code, and it actually made things worse. Now I double-check everything it suggests, lol.

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shane_williams7mo ago

What kind of mess did it actually make? Like, did it just give you weird variable names, or did it totally break the logic? I had one try to "fix" a simple loop and it made it way more complicated for no reason. It swapped a clear condition for something totally backwards. Makes you wonder what it's even learning from.

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anna_kelly677mo ago

Ugh, it's like it learns from bad examples or something, lol.

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rose_martin227mo ago

Good, maybe we'll actually learn to code properly now.

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davis.noah7mo ago

Wait, you've seen it break logic completely? I mean, I had one rewrite a function that checked if a number was even. It swapped it so it only returned true for odd numbers. The whole point was gone. It was learning from some backwards examples or something. How does it even get that wrong?

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