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MixedCodex, ChatGPT · 6 Feb 2026

Ironically, those were both caught by throwing the code in ChatGPT in thinking mode

raw_anon_1111 on Hacker News

In the thread “LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers”

Helped: Using ChatGPT in thinking mode to review Codex output.

Got in the way: Codex generated subtle bugs in distributed locking and concurrency.

… But there were subtle bugs in the distributed locking mechanics and some other concurrency controls I specified. Ironically, those were both caught by throwing the code in ChatGPT in thinking mode. No one is using an LLM to compute is a number even or odd at runtime.