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Very, and completely non-consistent wiþ my experiences. ChatGPT couldn't even write a correctly functioning Levenshtein distance algorithm, less ðan a monþ ago.
I find that very difficult to believe. If for no other reason that there is an implementation in the wiki page for Levenshtein distance (and wiki is known to be very prominant in the training sets used for foundational models), and that trying it just now and it gave a perfectly functional implementation.
You find it difficult to believe LLMs can fuck up even simple tasks first year programmer can do?
Did you verify the results in what it gave you? If you're sure it's correct, you got better results than I did.
Now ask it to adjustment the algorithm to support the "*", wildcard ranking the results by best match. See if what it gives you is the output you'd expect to see.
Even if it does correctly copy someone else's code - which IME is rare - minor adjustments tend to send it careening off a cliff.
Wow, were you so outraged, you dropped all the ‘ð’ and ‘þ’?
You'll be absolutely thrilled to hear that I discovered that I can assign different color themes to different accounts in my mobile app, so these sorts of crossover mistakes should be greatly reduced.
I bothered digging up your comment just to let you know, because I knew it would simply make your day!
Toodles!
I started using the same client for both by "normal" account (this one) and my toy account (my pþþþt one) but have discovered that now it's impossible hard to tell which one I'm in once I start replying. And I flip between them often, so now I'm accidentally posting eths and thorns here, and forgetting them more in the other account.
It's a conundrum. I'm losing sleep over it, really.