Software engineers are used to working with compilers, which produce highly detailed messages about instructions they don’t understand or can’t follow. Good compilers can point to the specific line or even character where things stopped making sense. If you tell the compiler to link a library, but the library file is not present on disk, the compiler stops and says so; it doesn’t pretend to have linked it anyway.
It seems odd to imply that Claude would fall into the category of “machines that work like a blender; it’s entirely up to you to notice what’s going wrong before it explodes milkshake all over your kitchen” and not “machines that work like a compiler; it tells you specifically that it doesn’t know how to add a string and an integer at line 42 character 23″.
Generative AIs have always been like a blender ever since the very first hallucination produced by an AI or the very first AI-generated picture with six fingers. The fact that an AI prompt is not a program and doesn’t work like one is no longer even new.
Software engineers are used to working with compilers, which produce highly detailed messages about instructions they don’t understand or can’t follow. Good compilers can point to the specific line or even character where things stopped making sense. If you tell the compiler to link a library, but the library file is not present on disk, the compiler stops and says so; it doesn’t pretend to have linked it anyway.
It seems odd to imply that Claude would fall into the category of “machines that work like a blender; it’s entirely up to you to notice what’s going wrong before it explodes milkshake all over your kitchen” and not “machines that work like a compiler; it tells you specifically that it doesn’t know how to add a string and an integer at line 42 character 23″.
Generative AIs have always been like a blender ever since the very first hallucination produced by an AI or the very first AI-generated picture with six fingers. The fact that an AI prompt is not a program and doesn’t work like one is no longer even new.