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> Out of desperation I asked ChatGPT. It was useless as usual. This is so real.

sureIy 2y ago
I hold the belief that if you ask it something that nobody has documented before it just won't do it. This also and particularly applies to code. Ask about Fibonacci? Great. Ask about something tricky? Let's make up some APIs
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  It’s oddly good at converting imperative C to Haskell, though.
- Symbiote 2y ago
  There are hundreds of resources for a Google search for "emoji flags Windows".
- nomel 2y ago
  Worse, the statistically frequent fibonacci-type problems are attractors in the latest space. If you ever get near them then snap, they'll degrade whatever answer you get that's not actually related, and it'll start throwing in fibonacci concepts into your non-fibonacci code.
Philpax 2y ago
fwiw, Claude gets this particular problem right https://gist.github.com/philpax/724633e106e3e3df4d5a83ba7bd228ff https://gist.github.com/philpax/724633e106e3e3df4d5a83ba7bd2...
1f60c 2y ago
Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked.
- nottorp 2y ago
  > Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to keep a stable of local llms (and update them regularly, for example). Some people have other hobbies. > Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked. What? It's been years since a regular search got you anything but spam from the usual tutorial farms.
  - 1f60c 2y ago
    Wait really? Are you saying this Google search[0] returns no useful results at all? The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got: * A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution; * A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users; * This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway); * OP's article; * A blog post about OP's article; * A blog post with an elegant solution using pyftsubset What am I missing? [0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render+in+Firefox+but+not+Chrome+on+Windows https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render...
    - nottorp 2y ago
      You're picking on the 0.25% searches that still return something useful.
      - 1f60c 2y ago
        I think you're moving the goalposts. I didn't know this problem existed until OP's article taught me about it, but it seems pointless to continue this discussion.

I hold the belief that if you ask it something that nobody has documented before it just won't do it. This also and particularly applies to code. Ask about Fibonacci? Great. Ask about something tricky? Let's make up some APIs

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
It’s oddly good at converting imperative C to Haskell, though.
Symbiote 2y ago
There are hundreds of resources for a Google search for "emoji flags Windows".
nomel 2y ago
Worse, the statistically frequent fibonacci-type problems are attractors in the latest space. If you ever get near them then snap, they'll degrade whatever answer you get that's not actually related, and it'll start throwing in fibonacci concepts into your non-fibonacci code.

Philpax 2y ago

fwiw, Claude gets this particular problem right https://gist.github.com/philpax/724633e106e3e3df4d5a83ba7bd228ff https://gist.github.com/philpax/724633e106e3e3df4d5a83ba7bd2...

1f60c 2y ago

Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked.

nottorp 2y ago
> Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to keep a stable of local llms (and update them regularly, for example). Some people have other hobbies. > Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked. What? It's been years since a regular search got you anything but spam from the usual tutorial farms.
- 1f60c 2y ago
  Wait really? Are you saying this Google search[0] returns no useful results at all? The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got: * A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution; * A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users; * This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway); * OP's article; * A blog post about OP's article; * A blog post with an elegant solution using pyftsubset What am I missing? [0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render+in+Firefox+but+not+Chrome+on+Windows https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render...
  - nottorp 2y ago
    You're picking on the 0.25% searches that still return something useful.
    - 1f60c 2y ago
      I think you're moving the goalposts. I didn't know this problem existed until OP's article taught me about it, but it seems pointless to continue this discussion.