As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output - but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones):
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs
These errors (which the industry wants us to refer to as "hallucination" - a whimsical, obscuring, anthropomorphizing euphemism) are the reason that reliable AI use requires the discernment that comes from skill and expertise.
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