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📣 themodelplumber

What's the longest amount of time you wasted due to ChatGPT being wrong


I was getting some help learning clisp...

...it took me 30 minutes to figure out that it was giving me broken code examples, wrapping variables incorrectly in parens, like:

(format t "You rolled a ~d" (dice-result))

...I still don't really know if I'm learning properly so it's pretty funny in that way. But overall it helped me make a lot of headway so far, even though it made me curious how much time it's caused other people to waste.


  👤 anonomousename Accepted Answer ✓
As someone who feels like regex is magic, I trusted it to do some complicated regex matching for me. I should’ve known better, but I assumed it was right - it took me maybe 20 minutes before I decided to test it’s validity when other parts of my code were throwing errors.