I was better off writing it myself because the model kept drifting over time
staticassertion on Hacker News
In the thread “AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier”
Helped: Shipping trivial features and finding simple XSS bugs.
Got in the way: Handling reentrancy safety constraints and identifying critical security flaws.
… of data into a tiny, lossy format. I routinely find that models fail when given novel constraints, for example, and the constraints aren't even that novel - I was writing some lower level code where I needed to ensure things like "a lock is not taken" and "an allocation doesn't occur" because of reentrancy safety, and it ended up being the case that I was better off writing it myself because the model kept drifting over time. I had to move that code to a separate file and basically tell the model "Don't fucking touch that file" because it would often put something in there that wasn't safe. …