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by danudey
146 days ago
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Gemini hallucinated a method on a rust crate that it was trying to use and then spent ten minutes googling 'method_name v4l2 examples' and so on. That method doesn't exist and has never existed; there was a property on the object that contained the information it wanted, but it just sat there spinning its wheels convinced that this imagined method was the key to its success. Eventually it gave up and commented out all the code it was trying to make work. Took me less than two minutes to figure out the solution using only my IDE's autocomplete. It did save me time overall, but it's definitely not the panacea that people seem to think it is and it definitely has hiccups that will derail your productivity if you trust it too much. |
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"Tell me how to do X" (where X was, for one recent example, creating a Salt stanza to install and configure a service).
I do as it tells me, which seems reasonable on the face of it. But it generates an error.
"When creating X as you described, I get error: Z. Why?"
"You're absolutely correct and you should expect this error because X won't work this way. Do Y instead."
Gah... "I told you to do X, and then I'm going to act like it's not a surprise that X doesn't work and you should do something else."