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The same way you control for hallucinations with say Medium articles or Stackoverflow answers. You verify the answer. Being given some code and reviewing it is
by quickthrower2 3y ago
The same way you control for hallucinations with say Medium articles or Stackoverflow answers. You verify the answer.
Being given some code and reviewing it is a lot quicker than writing that code. Copilot is great. Half the time it spits out the wrong answer but you can see what it was “thinking”.
Phind giving you an answer and references lets you quickly double check. Sometimes it hallucinates but the answer and references combo is much better than a Google search which in turn is better than nothing.
Of course I recommend people not use AI for everything. I will go straight to MDN for any WebAPI question and use —help as my first port of call on the command line. This is like your L2 cache as a developer. Using AI for everything is like swapping to disk for everything.