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Also had it hallucinate absolute garbage from time to time. The worst offender, that consistently shows up: Claiming there are certain library features, when there are not.

Easily the best rubber ducky though. Copy pasting big blocks of my own code and asking about it gives new perspectives to problems I am stuck on. Huge time saver in that regard.

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I’ve been very happy with most questions and coding queries. The worst results I’ve got were ones related to external libraries. We use Telerik UI for Xamarin components and Telerik has similar libraries for ASP.net, WinUI, JavaScript, etc. and the controls often have the same in different libraries and different methods and properties. Try as I might to steer it, it has yet to produce any code using these components that doesn’t mix methods. And as others have said, it will argue with you about those features or it will say “Sorry, that method is for the WinUI version. Here’s a corrected version:” and then make the same mistake again.

Oh yeah, I agree with that worst offender - features that don't exist that it quotes so confidently.

Especially when libraries get updated constantly - I ran into cases where it wrote functions based on previous versions of the library, where the function names and signature had already changed since.

I haven't tried yet, but I bet if I used a version that has web browsing and can read the latest documentation, it would do a good job and save me having to read the documentation myself and try to work it out.

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