[TUHS] Re: On the unreliability of LLM-based search results (was: Listing of early Unix source code from the Computer History Museum)

-1. Complaining about the wild confabulations of LLMs is like complaining about the food service on the Wright Brothers’ flier. Obviously, they are not good at this, and users must be cautioned to view every AI output as a rough draft. Certainly don’t forward it immediately to your teacher or a judge. I have found Claude to be fantastically helpful in programming. First, it replaces man pages, stack-overflow, and Apple’s wretched documentation, with just a few quick words typed in. I am working on an iOS app written in Rejective C, implementing a little language protocol to update the app from a server using SSL. I got a shell version of the protocol working first through a simple TCP port run from inetd. Then Claude helped me pick the openssl client options and stunnel.conf stuff to get the protocol running over that. I _think_ I have the signature properties right for the security I need. SSL is a nightmare, and especially on iOS, with complicated code, deprecated stuff, and so on. And, at 73 years old, I don’t retain all of this stuff the way I used to. After slugging a few non-functioning versions for a couple days, I told Claude this morning: - hey this shell script works with these certs - give me the routines that do the same thing in the app. Worked the first time. I am delighted. I don’t care that AI said I got my PhD at Hopkins during my early years at the Labs. ches