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NoClaude · 15 Mar 2026

It got all of the function signatures right but then hallucinated the contents of the functions

eeperson on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Hallucinated function contents and lookup map keys/values.

… An example I have of this is when I asked Claude to copy a some functionality from a front-end application to a back-end application. It got all of the function signatures right but then hallucinated the contents of the functions. Part of this functionality included a look up map for some values. …