Posted by davidest 3 hours ago
Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
What is one simple thing you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, Claude, or another model to do that it still somehow messes up?
I found this can work with AI. You get it to generate a lot more at first, and then do several passes over it to compress and squeeze out the noise while keeping the core information. With AI, at least with my prompts, it takes some effort (on my end) to get it to really really cut down the noise and not cut everything out.
Editing is generally hard work, at the current token price I don't mind spending multiple passes of high effort to get down to a reasonable noise/signal ratio. I've seen some people pass off output to a weaker/cheaper model but that makes me a bit nervous when I don't have intimate knowledge of the subject.
I've had some luck on the web app side if I use playwright or similar for the model to interact with but still far from efficient.
More of an image model than a LLM model tho
Why would it be amazing? We've known how to read hieroglyphs for a long time. It isn't a problem we need computers to solve.
Verifying trademarks and domain name availability is usually an additional step you need to ask it to perform. Trademark DB searches by the way are intentionally made difficult to scrape so most of the time it's a manual process anyway.
However, once you give it all the information (TM search results, domain name availability) it can help you with the judgement of how safe the name is from the legal perspective. With the obvious caveats, but still a good starting point if you are serious about the name.