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AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output (www.techradar.com)
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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 49 points 1 day ago (18 children)

No shit. 

I actually believed somebody when they told me it was great at writing code, and asked it to write me the code for a very simple lua mod. It’s made several errors and ended up wasting my time because I had to rewrite it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

It can't even copy and paste a Hello World example properly. If someone says it's working well for them, I'm going to now assume they are too ignorant to understand what's broken.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

What’s your preferred Hello world language? I’m gunna test this out. The more complex the code you need, the more they suck, but I’ll be amazed if it doesn’t work first try to simply print hello world.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Malbolge is a fun one

Edit: Funny enough, ChatGPT fails to get this right, even with the answer right there on Wikipedia. When I tried running ChatGPT's output the first few characters were correct but it errors with invalid char at 37

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cheeky, I love it.

Got correct code first try. Failed creating working docker first try. Second try worked.

tmp="$(mktemp)"; cat >"$tmp" <<'MBEOF'
('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"
`CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>
MBEOF
docker run --rm -v "$tmp":/code/hello.mb:ro esolang/malbolge malbolge /code/hello.mb; rm "$tmp"

Output: Hello World!

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm actually slightly impressed it got both a working program, and a different one than Wikipedia. The Wikipedia one prints "Hello, world."

I guess there must be another program floating around the web with "Hello World!", since there's no chance the LLM figured it out on its own (it kinda requires specialized algorithms to do anything)

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

That'd be easy enough to test wouldn't it? Ask it to write something else like 'The hippo farts are smelly'

If it needs to understand whatever the fuck that language is to get that output, it either can or can't?

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I’d never even heard of that language, so it was fun to play with.

Definitely agree that the LLM didn’t actually figure anything out, but at least it’s not completely useless

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Why the fuck does this language exist lol

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