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Subject: Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over
Date: 1 Oct 2025 17:21:55 GMT
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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>     if (scanf("%259s", srcFile) != 1) {
>>         fprintf(stderr, "Failed to read source file name.\n");
>>         return EXIT_FAILURE;
>>     }
>Mishandles filesnames with spaces in, or longer than the weird and
>arbitrary 259-character limit.

  After I brought this up with the chatbot, it gave me a new
  version [1]. That just shows, a coding chatbot really needs
  someone over its shoulder who goes through the code, points out
  the flaws, and keeps pressing on them until the code actually
  is written the way it should. And that overseer has to actually
  know his stuff. So yeah, human experts are still necessary . . .

  [1]

if (fgets(srcFile, sizeof(srcFile), stdin) == NULL) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Failed to read source file name.\n");
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
// Remove trailing newline if present
size_t len = strlen(srcFile);
if (len > 0 && srcFile[len - 1] == '\n') {
    srcFile[len - 1] = '\0';
}