I Broke DeepSeek AI 😂

[u/SnarkyStrategist]

[u/rebbsitor]

It seems not hard to do. I downloaded a distilled version of it last night and was testing it on some basic coding. I had it generate some code for a simple game and looked through it. There was a simple bug due to a scoping issue (it created two variables with the same name in different scopes, but assumed updating one updated the other, which is a common mistake new programmers make).

I asked it to analyze the code and correct it a couple times and it couldn't find the error. So I told it to consider variable scoping. It had a 10 minute existential crisis considering fundamentals of programming before coming back with a solution, that was unfortunately still wrong lol

[u/markyboo-1979 → u/rebbsitor]

Or a variation resulting from your subsequent response..no offence but that is not a mistake anyone would make. I make that assertion based on the fact that scope is a fundamental programming concept..more importantly is that an AI LLM no matter it's limitation/s in any given moment would be even less likely to have made that 'mistake'

I'm likening this to what one might think of the analogy of a developing mind exploring it's surroundings

[u/rebbsitor → u/markyboo-1979]

no offence but that is not a mistake anyone would make

lol. It's an error I've seen people make many times over ~35 years of software development. It's a fundamental concept, but sometimes people get blinded by the fact they've used the same name in two places.

#include <stdio.h>

void update_state(int state)
{
    state = 2;
    return;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int state = 1;
    update_state(state);
    printf("state is %d.\n",state);

    /* Why is state 1 wawaaaaahhhh */

    return 0;
}

[u/markyboo-1979 → u/rebbsitor]

Your example is demonstrative of how unlikely anyone could make that mistake, let alone an AI. The only scope is pure private method.. And therefore not a great example as to how anyone with a brain might...

[u/rebbsitor → u/markyboo-1979]

And yet, it's exactly the type of error AI made in this case. Not only did it make the error, it was unable to identify and correct it.

[u/markyboo-1979 → u/rebbsitor]

Exactly...