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by roskelld 405 days ago
I had an interesting one yesterday where I was building out some code on the Unreal engine and I gave o4-mini-high links to the documentation, a class header, and a blog with an example project.

I asked it to create some boilerplate and it presented me with a class function that I knew did not exist; though like many hallucinations it would have been very beneficial if it did.

So, instead of just pointing out that it didn't exist and getting the usual "Oh you're right, that function does not exist so use this function instead", I asked it why it gave me that function given that it has access to the header and an example project. It doubled down and stated that the function was in the header and the example project, even presenting a code sample it claimed was from the example project with the fake function.

It felt like a step up from the confidently incorrect state I'd seen before to a level where if it weren't for the fact that I'm knowledgeable enough about the class in question (or my ability to be able to check) then I'd possibly start questioning myself.