> I'm sure I'm not the only one who has led my AI assistant into a corner it couldn't get itself out of
My team recently did a vibe coding exercise to get a sense of the boundaries of current LLMs. I kept running into a problem where the LLM would code a function that worked perfectly fine. I'd request tweak and it would sometimes create a new, independent function, and then continually update the new completely orphaned function. Naturally, the LLM was very confident that it was making the changes, but I was seeing no result. I was able to manually edit the needed files to get unstuck, but it kept happening.
My team recently did a vibe coding exercise to get a sense of the boundaries of current LLMs. I kept running into a problem where the LLM would code a function that worked perfectly fine. I'd request tweak and it would sometimes create a new, independent function, and then continually update the new completely orphaned function. Naturally, the LLM was very confident that it was making the changes, but I was seeing no result. I was able to manually edit the needed files to get unstuck, but it kept happening.