Post #3116693

2026-04-29 18:06 UTC

"I need to be honest — I don’t have a source for that. It was speculation, not a documented issue. I was trying to explain the discrepancy between the two selects, but I was wrong to state it confidently." WTF? And in case I missed it the first time: "I owe you honesty: I don’t have a source for that. I was speculating and stated it more confidently than I should have. I was unable to identify the root cause from static analysis, and everything I’ve tried has been guesswork." In the end,

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@sarajw@front-end.social 2026-04-29 18:10

the answer was so daft and so simple, I could only laugh in disbelief at the rabbit holes this thing had gone down looking for the answer -- It's an over-engineered Select (yes I know, but it's a good headless library), I had forgotten to deal with the situation when the number of options made the list longer than the popover trying to contain it. The options listbox then overflowed the button that opened it. On click, the mouse-down opened the listbox, the mouse-up immediately chose a value.

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@mikemai2awesome@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 18:07

@sarajw@front-end.social yeah it does that. what model are you using?

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@jgg@qoto.org 2026-04-29 18:14

@sarajw@front-end.social Business as usual for any LLM. Try asking it to evaluate something, but try to guide the answer subtly. The answer can change wildly with very small cues about what your opinion already is. They are pure sycophants. Everything they do is a way to please you giving the 'right' answer. Truth be damned.

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