The AI broke nearly all of his automation scripts in the act of improving them

Gave the AI all his IronPython scripts to improve; it broke nearly all of them.

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He gives the AI all his IronPython scripts to improve
It breaks nearly all of them

Why it’s worth knowing

Improve is the most dangerous verb in the toolbox.

Where it’s from

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

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