[wg0]

It is quantifiable thing not a feeling.

Between ten thousand runs of:

``` const int MAX_COUNT = 10000;

printf("I'll count up to %d", MAX_COUNT); for(int i=1; < MAX_COUNT; i++) printf("I'm now counting %d", i); ```

And of the following prompt:

``` You'll count to 10,000. At the start say "I'll count up to 10,000" and then for each number say "I'm now counting <number>" and do not say anything else. Do not miss numbers in between. ```

Which one is going to produce 100% correct results out of a 10,000 run of each?

Now don't give me "these are different tools". We all know. I'm talking about reliability and predictability.

[vntok]

Well, for starters the program you wrote is wrong (very unreliable) 100% of the time (very predictable)... so you just got your answer I guess.

In any case, most -if not nearly all- of the top-100 LLM will answer your prompt with some code that does what you intended the first program to do. Only they'll actually code it properly of course.