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by throwaway314155 442 days ago
What you're experiencing is commonly referred to as "luck". It's the same reason people consistently think newer versions of ChatGPT are nerfed in some way. In reality, people just got lucky originally and have unrealistic expectations based on this originally positive outcome.

There's no bug or glitch happening. It's just statistically unlikely to perform the action you wanted and you landed a good dice roll on your first turn.

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haha yeh as someone who has built automation for years i can agree with this. You cant just click on something in a script, you need to reliably click on something. As a user, its very easy for you to make adjustments like clicking twice on a link if it doesnt load in time. Thats pretty much what your automation suite needs to end up with. A series of a functions to emulate user actions. You then combine that together with your scripts to create reliable scripts that can run in different conditions. LLMs wont do that for you, u need to instruct them specifically.