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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output - but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot-written code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones): pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/b... 7/

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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

These errors (which the industry wants us to refer to as "hallucination" - a whimsical, obscuring, anthropomorphizing euphemism) are the reason that reliable AI use requires the discernment that comes from skill and expertise. 8/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

I use a local chatbot to spellcheck these posts. Chatbots spot all kinds of typos that regular spellcheckers miss: pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/n... 9/

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Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Bass @styrrellou.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Glad you’re using « error » because of course « bug » is also a euphemism… « bug » suggests it crawled in, « error » correctly that someone put it there. Though once when I expounded this to a German audience a senior developer told me that he hadn’t known that a bug is an insect.

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