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Comment by candiddevmike

I had ChatGPT output an algorithm implementation in Go (Shamir Secret Sharing) that I didn't want to figure out. It kinda worked, but everytime I pointed out a problem with the code it seemed more bugs were added (and I ended up hating the "Good catch!" text responses...)

Eventually, figuring out why it didn't work made me have to read the algorithm spec and basically write the code from scratch, throwing away all of the ChatGPT work. Definitely took more time than doing it the "hard way".

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