alt Hacker NewsI see hallucinations ALL the time. It's only obvious when you're prompting about a subject you know well.
And when I say all the time, I mean it, and this is for Opus 4.7 Adaptive.
I often have to say, please do searches and cite sources, as if it doesn't it will confidently give me wrong or outdated information.
If you're often asking questions about a topic that's not in your specialist knowledge you won't notice them.
Hallucination is also much better controlled in the context of agentic coding because outputs can be validated by running the code (or linters/LSP). I almost never notice hallucinations when I’m coding with AI, but when using AI for legal work (my real job) it hallucinates constantly and perniciously because the hallucinations are subtle—e.g., making up a crucial fact about a real case.