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NoClaude · 10 Mar 2025

it went on to hallucinate some validations that don't exist providing a solution that looks nice, but basically it doesn't work in most cases

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In the thread “I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Hallucinated validations and converted wrong legacy code.

… These validations were something like credit card number validations, sums, check digits, quite nice you would say. But the thing is in a lot of these countries these numbers are basically assigned randomly and have no algorithm, so it went on to hallucinate some validations that don't exist providing a solution that looks nice, but basically it doesn't work in most cases. Then I went on github and found that it used some code written by someone in JS 7 years ago and just converted and extended it for my language, but that code was wrong and simply useless. …