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The AI made the change I asked for and broke the whole program

He used AI to mod a program he uses. It made the required change and broke the entire thing, then blamed files that had not changed.

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How it works

  1. He asks the AI to mod a program he uses
  2. The AI makes the required change
  3. The change breaks the whole program
  4. The AI blames changed files that had not changed

Why it’s worth knowing

The fix worked and the program broke at the same time, and the agent blamed files that nobody had touched.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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