AI Bypasses Bizarre Character Limits With Surprisingly Elegant Code
IgorBrigadir · x · 2026-08-12
A user tested an AI with an extreme constraint: removing letters at specific positions. The AI not only grasped the intent but also generated an incredibly elegant Python one-liner to handle ordinal suffix formatting (1st, 2nd, 3rd).
This clever use of math and string slicing to bypass restrictions was praised by the user as "fucking beautiful".
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