the results included references to functions that had never been in the library at all
gooseyard on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Got in the way: Model returned obsolete versions and fabricated non-existent functions.
… Not a huge deal since the canonical docs had some recommendations. In at least a couple of cases though, the results included references to functions that had never been in the library at all, even though they sounded not only plausible but would have been useful if they did in fact exist. In the end, I am generally using the search engine to find examples because I am too lazy to look at the source for the library I'm using, but if the choice is between an LLM that fabricates stuff some percentage of the time and just reading the fucking code …