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Twelve hours with a top coding model left him 20 new bugs and features built to the minimum

12 hours with AI Fable 5.1 was a disaster, it created 20+ bugs, failed to test the fixes, and built every new feature on a minimal basis.

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How it works

  1. He spends 12 hours with AI's top model
  2. It creates 20 or more bugs
  3. Fails to test the fixes
  4. Builds every new feature on a minimal basis

Why it’s worth knowing

Untested fixes are how one bug becomes twenty.

Where it’s from

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

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