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2026-07-28 10:51 UTC
As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output - but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones):
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs
These errors (which the industry wants us to refer to as "hallucination" - a whimsical, obscuring, anthropomorphizing euphemism) are the reason that reliable AI use requires the discernment that comes from skill and expertise.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:51
I use a local chatbot to spellcheck these posts. Chatbots spot all kinds of typos that regular spellcheckers miss: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback There's a reactionary group of strangers who seek me out to tell me that I'm a bad person for doing this. These are pointless conversations, mostly because I can barely make out a word over the scraping sounds of all the goalpost-moving these scolding strangers engage in. 5/