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[–] Brujones@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I got curious about x86 assembly, so I followed some tutorials to get the hang of it. Once I had some confidence, I wrote a prime number generator. I had a loop that I was sure could be more efficient, but couldn't figure it out.

I pasted the code to ChatGPT. It came back with an optimization that wouldn't work because it wasn't preserving critical register values. I pointed that out, and it responded, again and again, with the same code with the same problem. I was never able to get it out of this broken record mode.