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by stocknoob 526 days ago
Similarly, in every thread there’s an AI skeptic who says LLMs are “useless” for coding, and never provides an example query for what they were trying.
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If you ask about more niche language features or libraries, chatgpt will make up libraries or functions to fill the gap.

When asking an LLM to write a script for you, I would say 10 to 30 % of the time that it completely fails. Again, making up an API or just getting things straight up wrong.

Its very helpful, especially when starting from 0 with the beginner questions, but it fails in many scenarios.

Because the argument isn't based on individual query results. See for example my comment on a previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563715 .