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mastermage 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I love NixOS

oh yeah AI realy does not seem to actually know which packages exist. I once asked AI to create a devenv for some Julia development and it pulled some packages out of its ass that just plain did not exist.

sshine 3 months ago [–]

I'm overwhelmingly surprised about Claude's ability to know the package.

But the cut-off point in model / harness quality before it hallucinates everything but the general Nix syntax is staggeringly low.

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