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 @4ebb1885 @0683504d what types of traps have you identified so far? 
 @918f62c6 @0683504d the biggest one by far is hallucination - they can produce extremely convincing answers to all sorts of things which are entirely invented and unrelated to reality

Actually less of a problem for code, because if they hallucinate an API the code won't work when you test it! 
 @4ebb1885 @918f62c6 @0683504d from a coding perspective, if the model had access to fast compilers or code analysers it could self correct those hallucinations. 
 @815c3ddb @918f62c6 @0683504d that's exactly what ChatGPT Code Interpreter / Advanced Data Analysis does - it has Python, but you can extend it to be able to run other languages too https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/code-interpreter-expansions