Comment by nathan_compton

Synthesizing a bunch of stuff I've read here lately, it seems like if OpenAI and Claude have actually found product market fit (generating code) then the question of hallucination is going to get less attention in the future. If the real money is in code generation (where there is a relatively clear acceptance criteria of at least "it runs and does what I wanted as far as I can tell") then there doesn't seem to be a lot of juice in pulling ones hair out on hallucination of facts.

It seems like for agentic coding, just making sure the AI can find the relevant documentation to establish a ground truth is probably sufficient.

Note that I'm distinguishing here between hallucination of what you might call "free facts" and hallucination of material which deviates from what is in the context itself. The latter seems both a tractable problem and one which will improve coding agent functionality. But the former seems like its no longer on the critical path, probably because its hard.