blog! “GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?”
In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …
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@Edent I experience something like this way too often, when I try some hyped AI tool: Can't google some info? Some AI-powered search engine provides it instantly — only for me to realise that it's hallucinated and the provided source does not contain the alleged info. Need to rephrase a text for simpler language? Some text-rewriting AI-tool does that and cuts out 75% of the information. And yet people seem happy with that search engine and that writing tool. Maybe I'm too dumb