AI invented a nonexistent debugging function three times in a row
FrancescoMassa2001 · reddit · 2026-07-25
A developer asked an AI to debug code, and it repeatedly hallucinated a function that does not exist.
- The first suggestion sounded plausible and matched the library’s naming conventions, but the function was fake.
- After being corrected, the model apologized and offered another equally confident but still nonexistent function.
- On the third try, it produced a fully detailed example for a function it had invented on the spot.
- The poster gave up and went back to reading the real docs, joking that confidence and correctness seem inversely related.
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