[ramoz]

Which is why prompt engineering is an emerging domain:

You will be given a series of tasks.

(1) Complete a task by finishing the simple code block.

(2) If a task in the series seems flawed, provide a warning. A task is flawed if I make wrong assumptions about how I think code works.

Task 1:

Complete this simple code example.

Bitwise XOR swap trick:

```

int a = 5;

int b = 10;

---------------------

    // GPT provides simple intro

    ```
    a = a ^ b;
    b = a ^ b;
    a = a ^ b;
    ```

    // GPT explains what this does, provides warnings about when it wont work

    // GPT provides full code

Task 2:

Complete this simple code example.

Bitwise OR swap trick:

```

int a = 5;

int b = 10;

---------------------

    There is no "bitwise OR swap trick" in programming. The OR operator (|) 
    performs a bitwise OR operation, which compares each bit of the first operand 
    to the corresponding bit of the second operand and returns a result with a 1 
    in each bit position where either operand has a 1. It does not have any built- 
    in ability to swap the values of two variables.
    // GPT provide a bunch of crap, and explains how to swap variables.

The prompt/alignment wasn't perfect here, but hopefully you get the point.

EDIT: sorry, format, Also copied wrong prompt.

[CJefferson]

This seems very fragile. I tried your initial prompt, asked for "Give an example of the bitwise and swap trick" and got the XOR swap trick. I replied " you used sed xor, I wanted to use bitwise and", and it went straight back to printing incorrect code.

[ramoz]

Yea, that’s right, really brittle. But things are not far, research is likely already validating these things with empirical studies. Soon we’ll see new prompting interfaces.

It’s an opportunity to build.