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Are you saying that with the models from 3 years ago, with the right context management and prompting, your C snake game would fail?

I agree with you, expectations are not being set correctly.

That's my point. Learn to use the tools, including as they were three years ago, and magic does happen

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I gave it a basic one or two sentences prompt for the snake game, the code it generated wouldn’t compile 3 years ago. It was also unable to fix the errors. A similar prompt last week worked. It wasn’t a “good” version of the game, but it compiled and functioned.

The process being described by many in the comments removes all the magic. It sounds laborious and process heavy. It removes the part of the job I like, while loading the job with more work I don’t enjoy. This feels like the opposite of what we should want AI to do.

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