"Less a sieve of Eratosthenes and more of a pipe": AI coding fail sequel
moultano · x · 2026-10-21
moultano follows up on his viral AI prime-generator anecdote: instead of a Sieve of Eratosthenes, the code is "more of a pipe" — mocking how it stopped right after outputting the first prime.
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