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NoChatGPT, Copilot · 20 Mar 2023

Only it turned out that the method had never existed in any versions of asp.versioning

devjab on Hacker News

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Helped: Passing standard programming exam questions quickly.

Got in the way: Hallucinating non-existent methods and using deprecated libraries.

… I should've screen grapped it, but at one point, trying to get it to do some asp.versioning, it told us to use a conveniently named method on an object. Only it turned out that the method had never existed in any versions of asp.versioning. Co-pilot has been even less of a success. …