From: Gordon@leaf.net.nz   
      
   On 2025-11-16, pinnerite  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:06:56 -0800   
   > Mike Easter  wrote:   
   >   
   >> pinnerite wrote:   
   >> > ChatGPT's solution   
   >>   
   >> Great.   
   >>   
   >> A chatgpt solution quality is highly dependent on the quality of the query.   
      
   As is a human query, however the answer will include the human experience.   
      
   >>   
   >> Sometimes they are highly imaginative or hallucinatory if the query is   
   >> too loose or poorly framed.   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Mike Easter   
   >   
   > A few months ago, while laid up with a virus, I spent a couple of days   
   working through a trickly problem aided and hindered by ChatGPT. It was   
   hilarious. i knew it used guesswork when the answer wasn't obvious. You have   
   to be alert to this and feedback    
   complete attempt and response. You get thanked. that's the funny bit. But if   
   you have patience it will gradually work it out.   
   >   
   > Now I have an old issue with a virtual Windows XP that I occasionaly have to   
   use. So far ChatGPT hasn't solved it but I haven't had time to follow it up.   
   >   
   > Alan   
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