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wpietritoday at 11:33 AM5 repliesview on HN

I'm glad it went well for you. But I run a not-for-profit pinball museum, and I have specifically had to ban volunteer repairpeople from using the chatbots because it will confidently propose idiotically wrong solutions. Which will then get proposed to me, or just directly applied, with equal confidence. At this point I'd rather hear, "My horoscope said..." than "ChatGPT said..."

I expect that it's good for common use cases that's well documented. But then, so are a lot of other approaches.


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Finbeltoday at 1:56 PM

Two years ago it would have been insane to say that you got help from ChatGPT to fix your outdoor plumbing, people here would have been frothing at the mouth for merely suggesting it. Four years ago it wasn't even on the radar of future possibilities.

The quality it is today, is the worst it's ever going to be.

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joenot443today at 12:24 PM

> I run a not-for-profit pinball museum

Yeah, I would imagine pinball machines are at least an order of magnitude more complicated to maintain than above-ground pools are. That situation sounds really annoying, I feel for you.

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centuryfalltoday at 12:49 PM

By chance is it the one in Asheville, NC?

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j45today at 12:30 PM

The horoscope reference is resonating for me.

I know very little about pinball machines, out of curiosity, do some come with any amount of schematics or diagrams?

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SadErntoday at 11:53 AM

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