[Elte]

I've started to use ChatGPT for semi high-level questions only this week, and I'm with you. It has hallucinated quite a few nonexistent functions, and it's generally unhelpful slightly more often than it is helpful. Just now I asked it why an `<input />` and a `<select />` with the same CSS had different heights (I've managed to avoid CSS for a while, shoot me XD), and gave it the CSS applied. It suggested the default browser styling was the culprit, and I should set the same height to both elements. I replied they already had the same height set. Then it suggested setting the same padding - they already had the same padding. Then it put `box-sizing` in an example and I promptly realized that `<input />` and `<select />` must have different default values for `box-sizing`. I asked if that was correct, and it said yup!

Based on what I've seen elsewhere, I really feel like it should've been able to answer this question directly. Overall this matches my experience so far this week. Not saying it's never useful, just regularly I expected it to be...better. Haven't had access to GPT-4 yet though, so I can't speak to it being better.

[psygn89]

I remember asking it how to remove hidden files with rm and it hallucinated an -a option. Sometimes the hallucination makes more sense than reality.

[still_grokking]

Googling "why an <input /> and a <select /> with the same CSS had different heights" and pressing "I'm lucky" would give you the correct answer in seconds.

The AI is just a great waste of time in almost all cases I've tried so far. It's not even good at copy-pasting code…