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Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash by hamdingers on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:36PM (#48198320)
I can reliably produce hallucinations with this genre of prompt: "write a script that does <simple task> with <well known but not too-well-known API>." Even the frontier models will hallucinate the perfect API endpoint that does exactly what I want, regardless of if it exists.

The fix is easy enough though, a line in my global AGENTS.md instructing agents to search/ask for documentation before working on API integrations.

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Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash by sapneshnaik on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:44PM (#48198418)
Yeah. Better to have more details in your prompt than fewer. For example, I use this:

```

Build a Nango sync that stores Figma projects.

Integration ID: figma

Connection ID for dry run: my-figma-connection

Frequency: every hour

Metadata: team_id

Records: Project with id, name, last_modified

API reference: https://www.figma.com/developers/api#projects-endpoints

```

Note: You do need a Nango account and the Nango Skill installed before it could work.

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