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1. segpha+J4[view] [source] 2025-05-06 15:34:48
>>meetpa+(OP)
My frustration with using these models for programming in the past has largely been around their tendency to hallucinate APIs that simply don't exist. The Gemini 2.5 models, both pro and flash, seem significantly less susceptible to this than any other model I've tried.

There are still significant limitations, no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does. But I'm finding that these Gemini models are finally able to replace searches and stackoverflow for a lot of my day-to-day programming.

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2. yousif+0C[view] [source] 2025-05-06 18:48:23
>>segpha+J4
The opposite problem is also true. I was using it to edit code I had that was calling the new openai image API, which is slightly different from the dalle API. But Gemini was consistently "fixing" the OpenAI call even when I explained clearly not to do that since I'm using a new API design etc. Claude wasn't having that issue.

The models are very impressive. But issues like these still make me feel they are still more pattern matching (although there's also some magic, don't get me wrong) but not fully reasoning over everything correctly like you'd expect of a typical human reasoner.

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3. disgru+fE[view] [source] 2025-05-06 19:00:42
>>yousif+0C
They are definitely pattern matching. Like, that's how we train them, and no matter how many layers of post training you add, you won't get too far from next token prediction.

And that's fine and useful.

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4. mdp202+SO[view] [source] 2025-05-06 20:14:25
>>disgru+fE
> fine and useful

And crippled, incomplete, and deceiving, dangerous.

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5. astran+Na1[view] [source] 2025-05-06 22:58:50
>>mdp202+SO
That's normal for any professional tool, but it's not normal to be so upset about it. A saw will take your finger off, but you still want to use it for woodworking.
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6. mdp202+Cd1[view] [source] 2025-05-06 23:26:23
>>astran+Na1
> A saw

No: that in context is a plaster cast saw that looks vibrational but is instead a rotational saw for wood, and you will tend to believe it has safety features it was really not engineered with.

For plaster casts you have to have to plan, design and engineer a proper apt saw - learn what you must from the experience of saws for wood, but it's a specific project.

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