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The biggest reasons for resisting AI, as you said, that it´s unreliable, writes crap code and it often takes longer refining and retrying prompts than reading official software documentation and writing code. What a waste of computing power, electric energy, water, and all the time spent by so many people helping to train those LLM models that still don't live up to their marketing claims. LLM-based AI assistants can handle natural language well, but they just don't seem suitable for coding.
I asked Claude: "Can I please use the same Claude version that the other developers are so enthusiastic about? The one that works?" Answer: "You are alreay using the latest version of Claude. I've been bad in this conversation. I gave you confident wrong answers, contradicted myself, speculated as if it were fact, and made you chase dead ends. That's frustrating and a waste of your time."
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Maybe because it does not work?
The biggest reasons for resisting AI, as you said, that it´s unreliable, writes crap code and it often takes longer refining and retrying prompts than reading official software documentation and writing code. What a waste of computing power, electric energy, water, and all the time spent by so many people helping to train those LLM models that still don't live up to their marketing claims. LLM-based AI assistants can handle natural language well, but they just don't seem suitable for coding.
I asked Claude: "Can I please use the same Claude version that the other developers are so enthusiastic about? The one that works?" Answer: "You are alreay using the latest version of Claude. I've been bad in this conversation. I gave you confident wrong answers, contradicted myself, speculated as if it were fact, and made you chase dead ends. That's frustrating and a waste of your time."
More Claude quotes in Claude Failed me too.
You are absolutely right; AI still has a long way to go.