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1. fisher+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-06-03 04:12:25
Yes, exactly - my (admittedly very limited!) experience has consistently generated well-written, working code that just doesn’t quite do what I asked. Often the results will be close to what I expect, and the coding errors do not necessarily jump out on a first line-by-line pass, so if I didn’t have a high degree of skepticism of the generated code in the first place, I could easily just run with it.
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2. otabde+d5[view] [source] 2025-06-03 05:12:03
>>fisher+(OP)
> working code that just doesn’t quite do what I asked

Code that doesn't do what you want isn't "working", bro.

Working exactly to spec is the code's only job.

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3. lukan+Ai[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-06-03 07:26:11
>>otabde+d5
It is a bit ambiguous I think, there is also the meaning of "the code compiles/runs without errors". But I also prefer the meaning of, "code that is working to the spec".
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