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Exact Instructions Challenge - THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit
Josh Darnit
A family video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a parent follows them exactly as written, with comic results. It demonstrates how precise instructions must be.
HN uses it to teach kids computational thinking and as a joke whenever specs, requirements, or LLM prompts are taken too literally.
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