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AI struggles with basic text generation, author warns

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The author expresses significant frustration with current AI capabilities in generating plain text, specifically for documentation like README files and code comments. They argue that AI models often produce irrelevant or nonsensical content, making them untrustworthy for these tasks. This poor performance in basic text generation leads the author to doubt their reliability for more complex applications. AI

IMPACT Current AI models exhibit significant limitations in generating coherent and relevant plain text, raising concerns about their reliability for documentation and other non-complex writing tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of opinion pieces from a single user on Mastodon expressing dissatisfaction with AI's text generation capabilities.

Read on Mastodon — mastodon.social →

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AI struggles with basic text generation, author warns

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · alexelcu ·

    # AI will crap slop all over your carefully crafted README, either thinking that its current task is the most important in the world, hence it needs a mention o

    # AI will crap slop all over your carefully crafted README, either thinking that its current task is the most important in the world, hence it needs a mention on your project's homepage, or it will think the README is there for keeping a captain's log.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · alexelcu ·

    # AI is so bad at ... writing plain text (READMEs, ADRs, code/configuration comments, etc.) that I'm having issues trusting them with anything else. Like really

    # AI is so bad at ... writing plain text (READMEs, ADRs, code/configuration comments, etc.) that I'm having issues trusting them with anything else. Like really bad, I don't understand how people put up with it.

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