An overnight update turned his 1,000-line script into 180 scripts and 100,000 lines

Asked GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra overnight to update a 1,000 LOC Python script, woke to 180 Python scripts and about 100,000 lines of unmanageable code.

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How it works

He asks a top model overnight to update a 1,000-line Python script
Wakes to 180 Python scripts and about 100,000 lines of unmanageable code

Why it’s worth knowing

A hundred times the code for the same job is a special kind of failure.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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