OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open.
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OpenAI live-fixed a bug on stage during their GPT-5 launch, promised to merge it after the show, and three months later it's still broken. Nobody seems to care.

During OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch event, they demoed the model’s ability to fix real bugs in production code. Live on stage. In their own repository. The kind of demo that makes CTOs reach for their credit cards and engineers nervously update their resumes. There’s just one small problem: the fix they promised to merge “right after the show” is still sitting there, unmerged, three and a half months later.

  • Kissaki@programming.devOPEnglish
    261·
    15 hours ago

    The issue, presumably the PR (linked at the top of the issue because of reference).

    Look at the code change. It gets inputs and loops over them and seems to do an in-place fixup. But the code indent is wrong, and it even changed the function definition of the unrelated next function. In Python, the indent-logic-significance language.

    I assume they briefly showed the code on stage. Even then it should have been obvious to any developer. py file, messy indent, changes unrelated function.

    Please correct me if this is the wrong PR.

    • Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.caEnglish
      10·
      11 hours ago

      Actually the function definition is un changed. The line that was “added” as the bottom was also “removed” at the top. This is just the Git diff generator being confused, which won’t come as a surprise to anyone that has ever used it.

      The indendentation really is messed-up though.

    • thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world
      13·
      14 hours ago

      Based on what they showed in the demo, that’s not the PR. gpt made more changes than what’s in that PR and also modified a different transform function. My guess is they never actually pushed the actual commit from the demo or made a PR.

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      Does not appear to be the correct MR. Comments on the issue allude to “they never pushed it” so sounds like there never was an MR. Watching the announcement where they demo’d it, it wrote much more than is in that MR. Not to defend OpenAI, I hate vibe coded solutions that add so many useless comments.

      Write. Readable. Code.