Ask HN: Have people started to see cracks in the ChatGPT answers with time

almosthere · 2025-11-06T18:12:24 1762452744

Don't use chatgpt for that kind of work, use agents. It will read the error message and adapt, perhaps even go as far as open the release notes for the tools you're using and fix the problems it encounters.

bjourne · 2025-11-06T22:18:05 1762467485

IMnsHO, nope! People trust the bot way more than their own experience.

speedgoose · 2025-11-06T18:11:42 1762452702

Skill issue.

First, switch to Codex. Then, consider using the context7 mcp server to let agents automatically fetch the latest documentation.

Debugging is not so different than debugging code written by someone else. It’s a skill you can practice.

By the way, agents are also good at debugging.

techblueberry · 2025-11-06T18:56:43 1762455403

This is a great advertisement:

Agents: harder, slower and more expensive than just doing it yourself.

pavelai · 2025-11-07T10:25:21 1762511121

It's a very overgeneralized statement. Agents could do a lot of work, which most of people wouldn't want to do. and agents can do this on a pretty good level for now. Probably we would enhance their ability to do this in near future. People should stop write code and start to do real life things.

techblueberry · 2025-11-07T11:35:09 1762515309

What you are failing to understand, is that this is literally the worst these models will ever be. Uber wasn’t profitable for like the first 20 years of their existence, and now look at them. People said the same things about the internet.

pavelai · 2025-11-08T15:31:18 1762615878

The only thing I'm failing to understand is why you are using my arguments against my point of view, while you are who's critisizing agents. Can you elaborate your statements then?

raw_anon_1111 · 2025-11-07T23:16:31 1762557391

And thousands of other companies weren’t profitable and disappeared into obscurity and failed, using Uber as proof of anything is the ultimate in survivorship bias.

pavelai · 2025-11-08T16:06:01 1762617961

There a lot of examples of things been critisized in the beginning and strived, there are a lot of things which have gone. It only means that there could be only reasonable critics. Can you say if your criticism is reasonable? I saw a lot of things being thrashed in the beginning. And these things people use everyday. You can choose from thousands of examples

First plane didn't have cockpit, and windows, could fly only hundreds of meters, and looked more like a clothes dryer than a plane. Someone could call it inefficient (and really it wasn't efficient). It was easy to call it dangerous. But as we can see, planes evolved since then. When the first radio was invented there was no radio station to listen. When the steam train was invented it was crazy expensive and there was no government which has enough money to build all the railroads we have today

All of these technologies were modified by talented people, some of them were inventors, others later adopters. But they changed how this technologies work, and what goods they brought to us

AI is too young technology to tell if it fail or not. You can critisize it or you can change the direction of the progress. It's up to you

raw_anon_1111 · 2025-11-08T18:51:35 1762627895

And if you can point to thousands, then I can literally 100x for all the things that failed. You only have to go back 25 years in tech to see all of the failures - or YC companies that IPO’d more recently that collectively have a -49% return while the broader market has seen record gains

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...

It ends up for instance that Steve Jobs was right about Dropbox - it is a feature not a product.

pavelai · 2025-11-12T09:32:21 1762939941

Ok. We are talking about different things. There are fundamental rules which make technologies to strive or disappear. But there are other fundamental rules for products, features, etc. So you talk about products and I talk about technology.

YCombinator is about products, not technologies, so their example is not suitable here. Agents is a technology. They have fundamental advantage over premade software. They are already here and they are doing valuable work. They will stay for the near future. You can argue against reasons to use particular agents or particular products built around them, or particular features, but not against the whole technology.

The technology is verified, we need to find the way to make it safer and more sustainable. This would require to solve many technical tasks: build safeguards, create eco-friendly energy production, solve explainability, build physical infrastructure, develop new technical standards, etc.

speedgoose · 2025-11-07T05:24:21 1762493061

It depends on the task.