Troubleshooting AI for Generating Random Numbers

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Is there an action for "generate random number?" it turns out that AI is terrible at this...I spent like an hour working with claude to figure out how to get it to generate a random number and totally failing...

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Marvin A.
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yeah you could use the code action for it 🙂 Example python snippet:
def random_num(): return abs(hash(id([]))) % 100 print(random_num())
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Zac C.
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ooo excellent, I will try that thank you!
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Zac C.
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Marvin A. interestingly, right answer, wrong execution. I put this in place ubt it kept coming up with the same "random" number. I ran it through claude and it figured out you guysa re using a container that resets to the same "random" defaults every run, so it gave me different code that does work even in that circumstance. It was interesting how claude could reverse engineer the problem!
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Marvin A.
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oh shoot! good catch! 😄
Marvin A.
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Yeah alright… here is the alternative. Just tested it. We simply base it off the current time to make it truly random.
import time def random_num(max_val=100): return abs(hash((id([]), id({}), time.time()))) % max_val print(random_num())
Marvin A.
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works!
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Marvin A.
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yeah you could use the code action for it 🙂 Example python snippet:
def random_num(): return abs(hash(id([]))) % 100 print(random_num())
Marvin A.
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Zac C.
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ooo excellent, I will try that thank you!
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Zac C.
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Marvin A. interestingly, right answer, wrong execution. I put this in place ubt it kept coming up with the same "random" number. I ran it through claude and it figured out you guysa re using a container that resets to the same "random" defaults every run, so it gave me different code that does work even in that circumstance. It was interesting how claude could reverse engineer the problem!
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Marvin A.
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oh shoot! good catch! 😄
Marvin A.
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Yeah alright… here is the alternative. Just tested it. We simply base it off the current time to make it truly random.
import time def random_num(max_val=100): return abs(hash((id([]), id({}), time.time()))) % max_val print(random_num())
Marvin A.
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works!
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