Ben Halpern Posted on Mar 20 My AI agent messed up a UTC time conversion algorithm after I *specifically told it* to make no mistakes. smh Top comments (2) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Collapse Expand 👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ👾 👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ👾 👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ👾 Follow 📚 Full-Stack AI Engineer 📚 "A Smooth Sea never made a Skilled Sailor" - Franklin D. Roosevelt Location United States Pronouns He/Him Work Open to Work Joined Jan 14, 2026 • Mar 20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide You could try "Do this and make no mistakes. Once you produce a solution, look it over and find the mistake and correct it. Output to me once you give me the perfect solution with no errors". Big brain while loop solution 😂 Collapse Expand Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Follow A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. Email ben@forem.com Location NY Education Mount Allison University Pronouns He/him Work Co-founder at Forem Joined Dec 27, 2015 • Mar 20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
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You could try "Do this and make no mistakes. Once you produce a solution, look it over and find the mistake and correct it. Output to me once you give me the perfect solution with no errors". Big brain while loop solution 😂