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It’s not really an issue for me because I generally know very quickly if it’s wrong or hallucinating and can easily get it back on track.

And in general I find it’s more accurate and far more concise than anything that’s going to show up in a Google search.

I mean, there’s no way I’m taking what it says at face value or copy / pasting code from its response, but that goes for stack overflow, or any other source too. (maybe sans official docs)

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I'm curious. How do you know it is speaking untruths? What kind of questions do you ask where you know what a wrong answer would be? Is this just like "remind me how to reverse a string in go" kind of thing? Where you know how to do it, but cannot quickly recall?

Yep, exactly. I ask things that I know the answer to, or at least know enough to understand what the right answer is going to look like. I just can’t recall the specifics or am busy thinking through something else. It’s basically just an assistant, saving me the time of digging through official docs, searching previous project code, my own notes, etc.

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