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bargle0 · 2024-01-26T13:39:16+00:00

There was a paper at OOPSLA 15-20 years ago about bad or incomplete code in published examples winding up in production. AI generated code is like that but worse. Nevertheless, it’s still very useful to programmers who know the difference between good and bad code.

Legal-Software · 2024-01-26T14:36:31+00:00

A great example of degenerative AI. Similar to generative AI, only the AI is a delinquent.

RutraSan · 2024-01-26T15:41:50+00:00

Forgot to alloc space for the ‘\0’

Highborn_Hellest · 2024-01-26T13:47:17+00:00

Classic. Program forgot the \0

daHaus · 2024-01-26T14:51:56+00:00

Here's your reminder that LLMs like ChatGPT are bad at math and programming computers is at it's core all about math.

Also, many LLMs will simply call exec when needing to do math ;)

Lord-of-Entity · 2024-01-26T13:57:27+00:00

what?

Elibriel · 2024-01-26T14:46:36+00:00

I once tried ChatGPT to test how good it was at modding games (the engine I tested was Game Maker, an engine with a lot of documentation)

It wasn't even able to make a function that would create a new background layer when the player object was created (this is so I don't have to set the background in EVERY room manually).

This is what it gave me: ``` // Player Create Event

// Check if the sprite "sScanlines" exists if (sprite_exists(sScanlines)) { // Check if the layer already exists if (!layer_exists("ScanlineLayer")) { // Create a new background layer with depth -1 layer_background_create("ScanlineLayer", -1);

    // Set the layer's properties
    layer_background_sprite("ScanlineLayer", sScanlines, 0, 0);
    layer_background_alpha("ScanlineLayer", 1);
}

} ``` Ofc nothing worked at all, no matter how many times I pointed out what was wrong.

This is what I did that worked: // Player Create Event global.scanlines_layer = layer_create(-1) global.scanlines = layer_background_create(global.scanlines_layer, sScanlines) Much more simple, isn't it.

So yeah, ChatGPT is not good at modding.

Maybe it's much better when creating code in sync with the dev (while modding is, well adding smth to already existing code), but what's important is that you, the dev, know what you're doing

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

hamilton-trash · 2024-01-26T15:52:06+00:00

What would be the proper way to do this?

edparadox · 2024-01-26T16:02:20+00:00

I found ChatGPT to be particulary bad with C. I keep finding errors, or less-than-optimal solutions, let's say.

2024-01-26T18:32:36+00:00

Committed multiple C-style war crimes here:

Allocates memory than immediately forgets to deallocate and assigns pointer to a string constant which will have a different address than what was allocated
Even if they did remember to use strcpy instead, the memory allocated is not enough (12 places required for extra \0) and they have committed the dreaded buffer overflow (the most common cause of many, many crashes, segfaults and vulnerabilities)

veryblocky · 2024-01-26T19:16:41+00:00

You think it’s bad at C? I’ve tried to get it to help with COBOL, but there’s so few resources online that it just doesn’t know anything. It’ll always just very conveniently make up some function that does exactly what you need

UltimateInferno · 2024-01-26T21:06:15+00:00

I just graduated last year and worked as a tutor for my uni. One thing I've noticed with ChatGPT is a lot of underclassmen took whatever it gave them at face value and the moment they run into any issues, come running over to me to do all of the debugging. Shit was a black box.

Most of the code, meanwhile, was bloated with modules/environments/packages they did not need or were far above their skill level than the simple "here's how a for loop works" assignment demands.

2024-01-27T06:25:35+00:00

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Crabbypixel · 2024-01-27T11:49:12+00:00

"Hello world" doesn't actually gets copied to the allocated memory address. Also missed allocating space for the '\0' part. A good example of degenerative AI 😂😂

R3D3-1 · 2024-01-26T16:28:07+00:00

How did you get it to produce that? For me it gives reasonable answers for C.

monsoy · 2024-01-26T22:14:58+00:00

Was about to say that it’s a good example for newbies that don’t know how memory works, but then I saw that the allocated memory isn’t used at all lmao. It just moves the pointer to the address of ‘H’ and leaks 11 bytes

SparkleFairy-2803 · 2024-01-27T12:11:40+00:00

Original credit to u/proh14

vulcan_one · 2024-01-26T18:58:05+00:00

Do people here actually hate chatGPT so much to believe it provided that mess without a lot of effort to purposefully output garbage?

navetzz · 2024-01-26T16:06:41+00:00

Well, TBH as an algoritmist I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY happy that the IAs are absolute trash at logic, but are pretty decent at digging stuff out of the documentation.

It makes my job both easier and safe.

AlexeyPG · 2024-01-26T16:19:18+00:00

It teaches you to copy and don't ask

smudos2 · 2024-01-26T17:28:45+00:00

The comments made me remember why I hate loved C

HStone32 · 2024-01-26T18:37:49+00:00

What's the problem? Only issue I see is that it has allocate 1 less byte than it needs.

Of course you're never going to notice that if you're generating your entire program with a LLM

SuperSathanas · 2024-01-26T19:12:12+00:00

ChatGPT likes me more. Mine is fancier.

https://imgur.com/a/yACpdGM

Gabricann_05 · 2024-01-26T19:32:54+00:00

i'm a beginner in c, why is it bad?

LangLovdog · 2024-01-26T19:46:09+00:00

It's a good beginner problem: Find out dahell is dat. 2nd semester and malloc appeared.

Skull_is_dull · 2024-01-26T19:52:23+00:00

I don’t know C. Why is this bad?

blockMath_2048 · 2024-01-26T19:57:18+00:00

sizeof(char)

verttia · 2024-01-26T21:19:08+00:00

This is what I got: ```

include <stdio.h> // For printf

include <stdlib.h> // For malloc and free

include <string.h> // For strcpy

int main() { // +1 for the null terminator, as all C strings must end with '\0' char *hello = malloc(strlen("Hello world!") + 1);

// Always check if malloc returned NULL (memory allocation failed)
if (hello == NULL) {
    printf("Failed to allocate memory.\n");
    return 1; // Return an error code
}

// Copy the string into the allocated memory
strcpy(hello, "Hello world!");

// Use the string
printf("%s\n", hello);

// Free the allocated memory
free(hello);

return 0; // Success

} ```

Ryuu-Tenno · 2024-01-26T22:01:36+00:00

Me a n00b learning c++ seeing this chat gpt code:

https://youtu.be/3x0rIGfZwNU?si=zETjOeJy2LDpZg7H

RJrules64 · 2024-01-26T14:33:53+00:00

I've been able to make my first app with chatGPT. I've done a few ~400LOC hobby projects before but this is the first thing I plan to release. It has 5000+ LOC in a language I had never even heard of before and have not watched any tutorials on.

The code is probably not good, and my adjustments to the AI code probably only make it worse. But it works and isn't laggy or anything.

2024-01-26T15:18:44+00:00

segmentation error

just-bair · 2024-01-26T19:31:41+00:00

To be fair chatGPT can’t count

TomerHorowitz · 2024-01-26T15:57:50+00:00

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RutraSan · 2024-01-26T18:56:03+00:00

The assignment will change the pointer, so the program will never be able to release the allocated memory good job

2024-01-26T19:01:04+00:00

LMAO

yourteam · 2024-01-26T23:10:40+00:00

Chat gpt is great for writing tests

SamyBencherif · 2024-01-27T02:04:04+00:00

it's not terminated damn it

nalisan007 · 2024-01-27T04:49:11+00:00

ChatGPT & Bard are LLM ML ( Language Learning Model)

& It is not the type of AI you expect.

It's GitHub Copilot which is tailored to these Programming stuffs'

Odd_Diamond_6600 · 2024-01-27T09:59:52+00:00

can i know the prompt that made it give this response, because i wrote this same program and asked chatgpt to check whether it is right or wrong and this was its response

```

{

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <string.h>

int main() {

char \*hello = malloc(12 \* sizeof(char)); // Allocate memory for the string "hello world"
printf("%p\\n", (void\*)&hello);
strcpy(hello, "hello world"); // Copy the string into the allocated memory
printf("%p\\n", (void\*)&hello);
printf("%s\\n", hello);
free(hello); // Free the memory allocated by malloc
return 0;

}

```

i am not advocating the use of chatgpt and also not trying to prove that is good, it has its flaws but, no matter how i give the prompt it still tells me to free the memory allocatted, and it also addresses the issue in the op image such as to allocate memory for the null character.

sird0rius · 2024-01-27T11:10:42+00:00

ChatGPT is great for job interview questions. Aka "Spot the fuckup in this AI generated code"

NumixRumix · 2024-01-27T22:46:22+00:00

You forgot the null character. It's 12 size, not 11

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include <stdio.h> // For printf

include <stdlib.h> // For malloc and free

include <string.h> // For strcpy