Comment by fisherjeff
6 days ago
Yes, exactly - my (admittedly very limited!) experience has consistently generated well-written, working code that just doesn’t quite do what I asked. Often the results will be close to what I expect, and the coding errors do not necessarily jump out on a first line-by-line pass, so if I didn’t have a high degree of skepticism of the generated code in the first place, I could easily just run with it.
> working code that just doesn’t quite do what I asked
Code that doesn't do what you want isn't "working", bro.
Working exactly to spec is the code's only job.
It is a bit ambiguous I think, there is also the meaning of "the code compiles/runs without errors". But I also prefer the meaning of, "code that is working to the spec".