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Can you give an example of a question that you would google, but your colleagues would "Ask Claude" and they get a hallucination but you get the right answer?

Pretty much anything to do with transportation routes — it keeps telling me to take a non-existent train line, or a bus that isn’t on the schedule it thinks, or something like that.

Ironically: Claude Code docs

Tends to latch onto whatever was true at the time of its training run unless you point it to the llm.txt.

Probably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-it

"We hallucinate our answers exclusively in-house, go to the office fridge and grab some shrooms"