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by powersnail 532 days ago
> Every time ChatGPT gives you a sketch recommendation, ask for downsides.

It's sort of the right lesson (double-check) but also not (you are checking the same stochastic source). This is like asking an assistant to find out what AWS tech to use by reading the internet, and then ask the same person to do the same thing again. It's better than asking once for sure, but the solution should be to actually check the source info (in this case, the AWS documentation).

But the more important lesson here is that, it should be a bare minimum requirement that if you want to deploy something new into prod, you should read its documentation and _know_ what it does.

Regardless of whether you are asking LLM or a real person or some forum's post, you don't just follow an advice without understanding it. This is a scary deployment tactic.