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NoChatGPT · 19 Mar 2026

It kept producing code that looked to eye that it might work, but each time I ran it it would just throw schoolboy exceptions

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In the thread “Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Repeatedly produced code with basic null and list check errors.

The most recent logic I tried getting it to code for me was to make me some recursive C# functions to reverse navigate a node map (a Microsoft Project plan with various feeding chains) to calculate all possible paths, and return them as a list of objects. It kept producing code that looked to eye that it might work, but each time I ran it it would just throw schoolboy exceptions. I got tired of telling it to correct the things it kept forgetting to check for (nulls, path starts, empty lists), and just coded it from scratch myself. …