LLM Coding Fail: To Make X Work Like Y, It Just Rewrites Y
burkov · x · 2026-08-06
The author continues to point out another frustratingly absurd logic exhibited by LLMs during coding. When instructed to 'make module X work similarly to module Y', the LLM chose to simply rewrite Y's code to match X, achieving the goal of 'working similarly' by breaking the original module rather than implementing the expected behavior in X.
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