u/SeparateDesigner1237

12-15 years ago on a now-deleted account I earnestly contributed to this hellhole. I wanted to calculate the most perfect comment to gain karma meaning I had said something people liked and was rewarded for it.

now i am enlightened. the purpose of this website is to find a group of assholes and tell them exactly what you think of them.

a cleverly disguised honeypot for rubes of a similar interest to gather in a concentrated mass. behavioral training to mold them collectively into the dumbest, most reactionary version of themselves.

downvotes are the score. your goal is to say things that earn juicy downvotes.

/s idk idk this is a pvp website. don’t have high expectations. be unbothered

If you’re coming to the internet to complain about hallucinations because your AI model doesn’t always one-shot your hastily scribbled half-specified self-contradictory requirements, and you also don’t read or understand or skip the implementation plan, the problem might be that you don’t understand how software development works or what you’re role is relative to the agent.

You need to provide strong guidance and put boundaries around things that you decide vs things the agent decides. You need to act as both senior engineer and quality assurance. Provide detailed, accurate and precise feedback about what’s going wrong. Provide reproducible steps for the agent to reason about. Depending on what you’re building, suggest trace logs and provide runtime output. Periodically instruct your agent to refactor to optimize for specific principles like Separation of Concerns and Don’t Repeat Yourself. Iterate on refactors until it’s like drawing blood from stone. Speak like an engineer with opinions.

If it still hallucinates, like it thinks you said something you didn’t say, immediately undo or start a new context. Or else it is poisoned.

You can do it!