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Pounding the bot

The excessive and repeated use of AI to solve a single task, although it can also be used more generally.

It mainly refers to giving the AI a task, and then feeding it it's own output (either unchanged or with minor tweaks) with a reason for why it's wrong. It's primarily done by IT/programming students.

You: Hey, i coded X for task #5 but Y doesn't work, it gives me an error "001", fix it
AI: Here is a version with a part of Y replaced
You: Here is X with the Y replaced, now it gives me error "002", fix it...

A: Hey, how is the coding homework going?
B: Not great, i got stuck at the task #5 for 6 hours. I eventually solved it by pounding the bot until it gave me something usable.

by botPounder December 12, 2024