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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We’re the only ones that can get hyper focused and also hyper fixated on why a switch statement is failing when it includes a for loop until finding out there’s actually a compiler bug, and if you leave a space after the bracket it somehow works correctly.

That was a fun afternoon.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Gross, which compiler was that?

I managed to make an assembler segfault with seven bytes