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NoChatGPT · 23 Aug 2025

It generated syntactically correct code (almost) that did not work because chatgpt does not understand

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In the thread “Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Model generated syntactically correct code that did not work

… The scope was perfect: I had the buggy xsl, the buggy result, the expected result and a clear explanation. It generated syntactically correct code (almost) that did not work because chatgpt does not understand. This was not a complete loss: a good refresher of the syntax, but I had to do the thinking fully alone and found alone how to use "node-set". …