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NoChatGPT · 15 Jul 2025

I tried to get ChatGPT to help--o3 pro--and it kept on suggesting a concurrency problem

GMoromisato on Hacker News

In the thread “To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head”

Got in the way: Kept suggesting concurrency issue despite evidence to the contrary.

… And with sufficient logging, I proved that an object was not being deleted during marking, but the marking thread crashed anyway. [Quick aside: I tried to get ChatGPT to help--o3 pro--and it kept on suggesting a concurrency problem. I could never really convince it that all threads were stopped. …