AI's prime generator stops at first prime, mocked as "a pipe, not a sieve"

A developer shared that an AI-written prime generator was bug-free but stopped after the first prime, joking that it was less a Sieve of Eratosthenes than "a pipe." The anecdote became a viral example of absurdly plausible AI code failures.

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