Zen-style joke: mentor scolds novice for asking Codex, then fixes it with Codex
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-10
A viral Zen-koan-style joke about AI coding tools: a novice tries to fix a broken ML experiment by asking Codex. The mentor sternly warns that you can't fix an experiment by blindly asking Codex without understanding what's wrong — then asks Codex to fix it himself, and the experiment works.
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