On Thu, Mar 27 2025 at 22:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Though I really want people to sit down and think about the factual
impact of a tool based problem observation. Tools are good in detecting
problems, but they are patently bad in properly analysing them. And no,
AI is not going to fix that anytime soon, quite the contrary.
May I recommend you to ask your favorite AI model of the moment the
following question:
"Explain the discussion in the email thread starting at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250327152258.3097-1-ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx";
I'm sure that I'm patently bad at AI prompt engineering, but that does
not justify the utter insanities which these models threw back at me.
ChapGPT:
"....
This patch adds a selftest (automated test) for the nftables
flowtable feature using a netdevice. It targets the netfilter
subsystem, which is responsible for packet filtering, NAT, and other
packet mangling in the Linux kernel."
Grok:
See
https://tglx.de/~tglx/grok.html
for the full glory of AI hallucinations.
At least those two were halfways reasonable:
Gemini:
"API REQUEST ERROR Reason: Unknown."
Claude:
"I don't have access to the specific URL you've provided ...
my knowledge cutoff was in October 2024 ..."
Seriously?