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Expertise gaps make AI hallucinations harder to spot
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This messes with my mind ALL THE TIME When I do stuff with AI I am an *expert* in (eg coding on my project I know well, or doing research in an area I am very familiar with) I spot problems/errors/the model BS'ing me immediately. No big deal, I have it correct or start again BUT when I'm not an expert in an area, I find that I trust it, and then later learn it does stupid stuff. Like a case when I asked 3x AI models to give feedback on a legal case (that I also paid a lawyer for, but lawyer…
vlad_mihalcea@vlad_mihalcea5d ago
Claude Opus 5.5 is great, and most of the time, the solution is similar to how I'd implement it myself. However, every now and then, I find terrible design decisions that would fail in production, and that's when I realize how important software engineering is, and will be, years from now.