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The AI’s watch app code was broken beyond steering, so a cheaper model rebuilt it and it works

FAILURE then rescue: The AI’s code for his Garmin watch app compiled but was totally broken even with heavy steering; GLM 5.3 Flash then made it work.

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How it works

  1. The AI writes the Garmin watch app code
  2. It compiles but is totally broken even with heavy steering
  3. A cheaper GLM model makes it work

Why it’s worth knowing

Compiling is not working, and this pair of models proved it in sequence.

Where it’s from

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

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