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MixedGemini · 12 Aug 2025

It suggested a function that grabs the input, modifies it with a marker at the index given by the error message and shows clearly which bit in the input was wrong

theshrike79 on Hacker News

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In the thread “I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid”, replying to this comment

Helped: Detecting useless error message and suggesting a clearer fix.

Got in the way: Misunderstood the whole system and suggested irrelevant recursive code.

… But that's what the parser library gives us, so it's been there for a while. It suggested a function that grabs the input, modifies it with a marker at the index given by the error message and shows clearly which bit in the input was wrong. Could I have done this myself? …