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Re:OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race by AdieuToLogic on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:25PM (#46129191)
>> Support engineer ran customer query through Claude (trained on our public and internal docs) and it very, very confidently made a bunch of stuff up in the response.

> Yeah, LLMs are not really good about things that can't be done.

From the GP's description, this situation was not a case of "things that can't be done", but instead was the result of a statistically generated document having what should be the expected result:

  It was quite plausible sounding and it would have been 
  great if it worked that way, but it didn't.
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Re:OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race by verdverm on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:57AM (#46132057)
The core issue is likely not with the LLM itself. Given sufficient context, instructions, and purposeful agents, a DAG of these will not produce such consistently wrong results with good grounding context

There are a lot of devils in the details and there are few in the story

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