Comment by simonw
14 days ago
Was this Claude Code or Claude.ai or some other tool that used Claude under the hood?
Different harnesses have different search capabilities.
If I'm doing something that benefits from search I tend to switch to ChatGPT because I know it has a really good search feature available to it. I don't trust Claude's as much.
I used the Claude website and Mac desktop app for a relatively standard iOS SwiftUI project.
I used Claude Code with VS Code for some Godot stuff, and even there it sometimes gave outdated and outright made-up APIs (functions that seemed like they should exist but did not etc.)
Unfortunately LLMs mostly suck at Swift and SwiftUI from what I've heard - they still change pretty often and as a result there aren't enough fresh examples in the training data.
As primarily a Python/JavaScript programmer I don't have that problem!
They're terrible at anything new, including knowing about THEMSELVES and their latest versions.
This is me asking ChatGPT 5 about ChatGPT 5: https://i.imgur.com/aT8C3qs.png
Asking about Nintendo Switch 2: https://i.imgur.com/OqmB9jG.png
This could be solved and LLMs could be a lot more useful if they could be a wrapper around live web search: Just search for this shit, scrap the top few results, and summarize the info to me.
But that's a stillborn dream, crippled because Google won't let 3rd-party AIs use their search willy nilly and websites don't want to be scrapped :(
Don't get me wrong: I see the potential in AIs/LLMs and I think they could be amazing for everything, but like every awesome thing, they're hampered by corporate (and government) idiocy.
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