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NoTool not named · 3 Mar 2025

Unfortunately there was one particular edge case which caused that recursive call to become an infinite loop, and I was extremely embarrassed seeing that "stack overflow" server error alert come through Slack afterward

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In the thread “Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: AI inserted unnecessary recursive call that caused infinite loop in production.

… I missed it, the code reviewer missed it, and eventually it merged to production. Unfortunately there was one particular edge case which caused that recursive call to become an infinite loop, and I was extremely embarrassed seeing that "stack overflow" server error alert come through Slack afterward.