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by imtringued 1270 days ago
I didn't poke any holes into it. I just entered my code and asked it to do some work for me and it simply failed. The problem was a simple 50 line function I copy pasted from stackoverflow. I asked it to do something really easy.

The AI can output a lot of text but can you input a 100000 line code base into it? No you can't. You can't even input 50 lines of code that is already in the data set!

And by failure I mean somethin akin to a blue screen and not that the output was wrong, there was no output!

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I wonder though could you have it create a list of comments about the function. then use the comments to generate smaller functions and then generate test data for those functions then build unit test for those functions then have it build something to solve the original problem with the smaller functions along with test data.
You don't even have to do that last step and you'll be doing more debugging than is necessary to do that. Just do the elephant carpaccio yourself then feed it the slices and glue the shit it excretes out together and boom you have MVP.