My employer pays for Claude, and my approach is to use it as a better Google search. It's often not better.
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."
Just today it made three glaring mistakes in one session:
1. It read a file in the wrong directory, because that file had the same name as the file in the right directory. It apologized when I challenged it, promising me that it would remember to "read import statements" in the future.
2. It miscounted the number of times a function was called in my repo. It said 20, while my built-in IDE search accurately showed 17. Again, it apologized when I corrected it.
3. It referred to a variable by name that does not exist anywhere in my code. It apologized, and said it was referring to a variable used internally by one of the third-party packages installed in my repo.
So many apologies.
It's the little things like this that remind me on a regular basis just how little I can trust artificial "intelligence."