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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

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1246 points adrianh | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.894s | source
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JimDabell ◴[07 Jul 25 15:57 UTC] No.44491678[source]▶
I wrote this the other day:

> Hallucinations can sometimes serve the same role as TDD. If an LLM hallucinates a method that doesn’t exist, sometimes that’s because it makes sense to have a method like that and you should implement it.

— https://www.threads.com/@jimdabell/post/DLek0rbSmEM

I guess it’s true for product features as well.

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jjcm ◴[07 Jul 25 16:21 UTC] No.44491913[source]▶
Seems like lots of us have stumbled on this. It’s not the worst way to dev!

> Maybe hallucinations of vibe coders are just a suggestion those API calls should have existed in the first place.

> Hallucination-driven-development is in.

https://x.com/pwnies/status/1922759748014772488?s=46&t=bwJTI...

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1. NooneAtAll3 ◴[07 Jul 25 21:34 UTC] No.44494898[source]▶
inb4 "Ai thinks there should be a StartThermonuclearWar() function, I should make that"
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2. blharr ◴[07 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44495136[source]▶
In a combat simulator, absolutely
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3. burnt-resistor ◴[07 Jul 25 22:29 UTC] No.44495262[source]▶
The only winning move is ...