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NoChatGPT · 22 Apr 2023

Nontrivial problem solutions are wishful thinking hallucinations, eg. I ask it for some way to use AWS service X and it comes up with a perfect solution - that I spend 10 minutes desperately trying to uncover - and find out that it doesn't exist and I've wasted 15 minutes of my life

moonchrome on Hacker News

wasted 15 minutes of my life

In the thread “Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Hallucinated solutions and subtly wrong code with false claims.

After trying to use it as such so far : Nontrivial problem solutions are wishful thinking hallucinations, eg. I ask it for some way to use AWS service X and it comes up with a perfect solution - that I spend 10 minutes desperately trying to uncover - and find out that it doesn't exist and I've wasted 15 minutes of my life. "Nudging it" with followups how it's described solutions violate some common patterns on the platform, it doubles down on it's bullshit by inventing other features that would support the functionality. …