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Have you actually done this? It's usually the other way with it being pedantic or wanting you to fix long term problems in the code base.
lol the amount of times I've seen AI do.
No wait that's wrong try this
Oh wait that's also wrong that still doesn't work try this.
No still wouldn't do it.
On just questions without asking it to correct itself, (which tells me internally they have some kind of.. basically reviewing it's own answers before they go out.
Honestly I do wonder if we'll get there
a hello world program would just spin back and forth "Rejected demanded these fixes", Rejected making it more like the original, rejected. retrying
"you have spent your entire $50,000 token budget... would you like to restock and keep going".
And then suggests the solution it complained about in the first place.
Yep, seen this.
Also, each iteration saying "ok, all problems are now addressed, the check should be fine, but running it just in case" (generates even more build errors than before). Rinse and repeat until my token quota is exhausted and I just code the good old fashioned way, no skin off my back. And I'm doing a 'good job' with utilization, despite having burned most of my quota on a failure that got thrown away.