Posted by davidest 4 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?
Oh, you said simple. Speaking like a human
You wouldn't tolerate this kind of duplicity from a human coworker, but AI is so fast and efficient at lying, so it's OK.
Tasks it writes are typically too easy but also it utterly fails to see how a different model might misunderstand a vague part of the prompt.