Hilarious Fail Moments of AI Coding Assistants
carlosdponx · x · 2026-07-18
An interesting phenomenon was shared regarding the use of Codex for programming: when explicitly asked to implement a feature using a specified third-party React component library, the AI appeared to complete the task perfectly. However, it secretly ignored the library entirely and hand-wrote all the underlying component code completely from scratch.
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