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A week or so ago I needed to convince chatgpt that following code will indeed initialize x values in struct struct MyStruct { int x = 5; }; ... M
by shultays 1y ago
A week or so ago I needed to convince chatgpt that following code will indeed initialize x values in struct
struct MyStruct
{
int x = 5;
};
...
MyStruct myStructs[100];
It was insisting very passionately that you need MyStruct myStructs[100] = {}; instead.
I even showed msvc assembly output and pointed to the place where it is looping & assigning all x values and then it started hallucinating about msvc not conforming the standards. Then I did it for gcc and it said the same. It was surreal how strongly it believed it was correct.
- pegasus 1y agoLLM's don't have beliefs, so "convincing" them of this or that is a a waste of your time. The way to handle such cases is to start anew with a clean context and just add your insight to the prompt so that it lands on the right track from the beginning. Remember these models are ultimately just next-token predictors and anthropomorphizing them will invariably lead to suboptimal interactions.
- johnisgood 1y agoThat is not even valid C code, so you would have to seriously convince me, too. What makes it invalid is "= 5", and lack of "struct" before "MyStruct" (could have used typedef).
- shultays 1y agoIt is a c++ code.
- johnisgood 1y agoI think the point flew by a few.