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they can't be aware of the latest changes in the frameworks I use, and so force me to use older features, sometimes less efficient of course they can, teach th
by bdangubic 1y ago
they can't be aware of the latest changes in the frameworks I use, and so force me to use older features, sometimes less efficient
of course they can, teach them / feed them latest changes or whatever you need (much like another developer unaware of the same thing)
they fail at doing clean DRY practices even though they are supposed to skim through the codebase much faster than me
tell them it is not DRY until they make it DRY. for some (several projects I’ve been involved with) DRY is generally anti-pattern when taken to extremes (abstraction gone awry etc…). instruct it what you expect and it and watch it deliver (much like you would another developer…)
they bait me into inexisting apis, or hallucinate solutions or issues
tell it when it hallucinates, it’ll correct itself
they cannot properly pick the context and the files to read in a mid-size app
provide it with context (you should always do this anyways)
they suggest to download some random packages, sometimes low quality ones, or unmaintained ones
tell it about it, it will correct itself
- esjeon 1y agoAnecdotally, ChatGPT still struggles with its own API. It keeps juggling between different versions of its API and hallucinates API parameters, even when I force-feed official documents into the context (to be fair, the documentation is straight awful). Sometimes it totally refuses to change its basic assumptions, so I have to blow up the context just to make it use the up-to-date API correctly. LLMs are stupid - nothing magic, nothing great. They’re just tools. The problem with the recent LLM craze is that people make too many obviously partially true statements.
- simonw 1y agoThat's because GPT-4o's training cut-off is Sep 30, 2023 (see https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o) and the OpenAI API has changed a LOT since then. Claude 4 has a training cut-off of March 2025, I tried something today about its own API and it gave me useful code.
- karn97 1y ago[dead]
- apwell23 1y ago> tell it when it hallucinates, it’ll correct itself no it doesn't. Are you serious?
- bdangubic 1y agojust today 3 times and countless times before… you just gotta take some serious time to learn and understand it… or alternatively write snarky comments on the internet…
- apwell23 1y agointresting. for me it just keeps making up new stuff that doesn't exist when i feed it the error and telling it hallucinates. perhaps ppl building crud webapps have different experience than ppl building something niche?
- bdangubic 1y agoI don't build CRUD apps, 1099 contractor so too expensive to do that kind of work :)
- soraminazuki 1y agoSo when LLMs go around in circles, as it often does [1], that's a skill issue. But when it gets it right some of the time, that's proof of superiority. This is the kind of reasoning that dominates LLM zealotry. No evidence given for extraordinary claims. Just a barrage of dismissals of legitimate problems. Including the article in discussion. All of this makes me have a hard time taking any of it seriously. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152