this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Another problem I've realized today, is the proliferation of data that was originally hallucinated by AI.
I was discussing an issue on a software with a coworker and he asked an AI for help configure around it. He then sent me "apparently we can try changing this setting to this value". I told him to first validate if that setting really existed because AI tends to make up things like that when it's what you would want to hear and running a test would take us 20~30 minutes.
He found some discussions about that setting not working as people expected. "ok at least it exists then" and we tried it. It didn't work. I later cloned the source of that software and checked, the setting didn't exist - ever.
I love that you even specifically said, "Yea, let's check to make sure that setting exists to begin with." To which instead of actually fucking checking, they proceed to google more about the setting and use someone else's 'discussion' online of it not working as proof that it does exist, even though they were likely having that discussion because the setting didn't exist.
This is also how I can tell this story is 100% true.
I don't miss working support at all and am reminded of it like this daily
The benefit of working with open source code bases or being able to check the source for existing features.
It's very common for there to be hidden settings, with open source one can look at the code based but with closed source a search may be one's only hope.