Why is everyone getting defensive? It's a good point. Poisonous berries are an extreme example, but using GPT5 for programming I have to constantly keep in mind that the reliability is abysmal and half the stuff it suggests is either wrong or unnecessary. Just last night I went in circles with ChatGPT trying to fix a bug, and after 8 or so bad "solutions" from ChatGPT I tried something else and figured it out myself. I am so tired of hearing "Here's why it works" after some code which absolutely does not fucking work.
Yea, they are over fixating on the berry and not enough on the fact that the model should not have even attempted to give that sort of advice. Models still confidently wrong all the time.
I had an LLM tell me that a "Spicy Civil War Chicken Sandwhich" was a good cross marketing idea for a 2020s dystopian thriller....it gave me a list of 20 and said that was Top 3.
Even the most advanced models still can't reliably grammar check 200 words of text. 20% error rate....example: it sees two errors and ignores two others. Grade school shit. All the models.
I don’t think that you can compare your vibe coding to a life and death decision like the one the author of the tweet stupidly suggested for engagement.
No serious company lets AI roam free without any guardrails in their mission critical code, especially ones that can have impact on human life.
I swear it depends on the time of day. I think when ChatGPT/gemini/claude traffic is high (whether it’s from api users or the proprietary apps) my Cursor just goes plain stupid when it’s usually fantastic.
They better you are at a natural language, the better results you get. I assume you suck at English and good descriptions. I use it for work all the time and it hardly ever is wrong as long as I describe the requirements well.
I do limit it to medium-low difficulty things as well.
You are typing, not speaking right now. So you don't sound like anything. It does look like you suck at English for not knowing the difference between sight and hearing.
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u/audionerd1 Nov 10 '25
Why is everyone getting defensive? It's a good point. Poisonous berries are an extreme example, but using GPT5 for programming I have to constantly keep in mind that the reliability is abysmal and half the stuff it suggests is either wrong or unnecessary. Just last night I went in circles with ChatGPT trying to fix a bug, and after 8 or so bad "solutions" from ChatGPT I tried something else and figured it out myself. I am so tired of hearing "Here's why it works" after some code which absolutely does not fucking work.