Yes
It found several real memory bugs, and now that service has been running since with no problems
sothatsit on Hacker News
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In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”
Helped: Providing source code, tests, and specific problem context.
Got in the way: Initial test generation required manual fixing to run.
… Later, I wrote a ~5k line proxy for work in C, and gave the whole thing to ChatGPT o1 and asked it to review it. It found several real memory bugs, and now that service has been running since with no problems. Just this week, I was trying to write a greedy solver to pick the best subset of block sizes to keep from a larger sweep for shorter testing. …