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NoChatGPT · 10 Nov 2023

I took a closer look and realized that the code it made was almost right, but also 5% wrong

mkoryak on Hacker News

5% wrong

In the thread “Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0”, replying to this comment

Helped: Prior debugging context allowed detection of subtle errors.

Got in the way: Generated code contained subtle, undetected inaccuracies.

… I started looking at this code to find the prod bug, but I found other bugs that I wasn't expecting... I took a closer look and realized that the code it made was almost right, but also 5% wrong. I wouldn't have noticed the incorrectness if I wasn't debugging for several hours before and had some general idea of what the pretty printed code did and did not do.