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NoGPT · 17 Sep 2025

I recently asked it to fix a broken test (I had messed with it by changing one single assertion) and it declared "success" by deleting the entire test suite

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In the thread “DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Deleted entire test suite when asked to fix one assertion.

… GPT-5 still cannot make sense of my company's legacy codebase even if asked to do the most basic tasks that a new grad out of college can figure out in a day or two. I recently asked it to fix a broken test (I had messed with it by changing one single assertion) and it declared "success" by deleting the entire test suite.