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371 points ulrischa | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.467s | source
1. nojs ◴[] No.43236016[source]
> Hallucinated methods are such a tiny roadblock that when people complain about them I assume they’ve spent minimal time learning how to effectively use these systems—they dropped them at the first hurdle.

If you’re writing code in Python against well documented APIs, sure. But it’s an issue for less popular languages and frameworks, when you can’t immediately tell if the missing method is your fault due to a missing dependency, version issue, etc.

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2. zahlman ◴[] No.43238769[source]
IMX, quite a few Python users - including ones who think they know what they're doing - run into that same confusion, because they haven't properly understood fundamentals e.g. about how virtual environments work, or how to read documentation effectively. Or sometimes just because they've been careless and don't have good habits for ensuring (or troubleshooting) the environment.