alt Hacker NewsPasting a big batch of new code and asking Claude "what have I forgotten? Where are the bugs?" is a very persuasive on-ramp for developers new to AI. It spots threading & distributed system bugs that would have taken hours to uncover before, and where there isn't any other easy tooling.
I bet there's loads of cryptocurrency implementations being pored over right now - actual money on the table.
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You just have to be careful because it will sometimes spot bugs you could never uncover because they’re not real. You can really see the pattern matching at work with really twisted code. It tends to look at things like lock free algorithms and declare it full of bugs regardless of whether it is or not.
> Pasting a big batch of new code and asking Claude "what have I forgotten? Where are the bugs?"
It's actually the main way I use CC/codex.
> "Codex wrote this, can you spot anything weird?"
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I like biasing it towards the fact that there is a bug, so it can't just say "no bugs! all good!" without looking into it very hard.
Usually I ask something like this:
"This code has a bug. Can you find it?"
Sometimes I also tell it that "the bug is non-obvious"
Which I've anecdotally found to have a higher rate of success than just asking for a spot check