As someone who has to deal with LLMs/AI daily in my work in order to fix the messes they create, this tracks.
AI’s sole purpose is to provide you a positive solution. That’s it. Now that positive solution doesn’t even need to be accurate or even exist. It’s built to provide a positive “right” solution without taking the steps to get to that “right” solution thus the majority of the time that solution is going to be a hallucination.
you see it all the time. you can ask it something tech related and in order to get to that positive right solution it’ll hallucinate libraries that don’t exist, or programs that don’t even do what it claims they do. Because logically to the LLM this is the positive right solution WITHOUT utilizing any steps to confirm that this solution even exists.
So in the case of OPs post I can see it happening. They told the LLM they wanted analytics for 3 months and rather than take the steps to get to an accurate solution it ignored said steps and decided to provide positive solution.
Don’t use AI/LLMs for your day to day problem solving. you’re wasting your time. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc have all programmed these things to provide you with “positive” solutions so you’ll keep using them. they just hope you’re not savvy enough to call out their LLM’s when they’re clearly and frequently wrong.













Don’t go to bars in Canada on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in winter then cause…god damn it’s all they’ll show. OH and if you’re lucky, Friday Nights too.
in my 40+ years being Canadian i’ve YET to meet another fellow canuck that enjoys or watches curling. never. and yet they’ll show the absolute shit out of it on TV here. I don’t get it. We even have god damn curling clubs everywhere and I STILL have yet to meet anyone that loves it and plays it.
It’s just so bizarre. finding a hockey fan or simply someone who has played hockey? sure no prob, we all played as kids. But curling? never. I don’t get it. I think it’s some Canadian conspiracy or something. Like for decades the Canadian government has been trying to push curling on us to make it popular or something and no one plays it. no one watches it. but you see it all the god damn time.