I’m a hobby programmer who never worked a programming job. Last week I was bored, I asked o1 to help me to write a Solitaire card game using React because I’m very rusty with web development.

The first few steps were great. Guided me to install things and setup a project structure. The model even generated codes for a few files.

Then something went wrong, the model kept telling me what to do in vague, but didn’t output codes anymore. So I asked for further help, and now it started contradicting itself, rewriting business logic that were implemented in the first response, 3-4 pieces of code snippets of the same file that aren’t compatible etc, and it all fell apart.