My employer pays for Claude, and my approach is to use it as a better Google search. It's often not better.
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."
I'm amused at how many hacker news accounts saw this and immediately jumped to the conclusion that you either were using the model wrong or using the wrong model.
ive been regularly seeing this exact reaction online since November 2025, sadly :/
Exactly this. If you were using the exact model today that 6-12 months ago people here were telling you "absolutely does not make this kind of mistake anymore" they'd tell you the same thing again, just replacing $OLDER_MODEL with $NEWER_MODEL. Why did $OLDER_MODEL not make this mistake 6-12 months ago, but it does now? The answer to that question is obvious, but AI-bros cannot understand that.
It's basically impossible at this point to take these people seriously anymore.
stack_framer · · focus · HN ↗
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."
pydry · · focus · HN ↗
ive been regularly seeing this exact reaction online since November 2025, sadly :/
gered · · focus · HN ↗
It's basically impossible at this point to take these people seriously anymore.
julianlam · · focus · HN ↗
My model weights don't change unless I change them.
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