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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you can tell it just ratholes on trying to force one concept to work rather than realizing it's not the correct concept to begin with

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

That’s exactly what most junior devs do when stuck. They rehash the same solution over and over and it almost seems like that llms trained on code bases infer that behavior from commit histories etc.

It almost feels like on of those “we taught him these tasks incorrectly as a joke” scenarios