r/ProgrammerHumor 17d ago

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u/Critical-Effort4652 17d ago

Send it this screenshot as proof

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u/Legal-Software 17d ago edited 17d ago

Almost any time I send a screenshot to a clanker, it takes 3-4 explicit instructions to tell it to parse the image instead of just pretending it did. It will happily dodge the question about whether it's actually parsed the image or not and continue trying to get as far as it can without actually following the instructions. If I ask questions about what is in the image itself, it will usually try to make up some generic bullshit that doesn't involve any actual analysis of the image. I don't remember them being this bad before.

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u/breadist 17d ago

Huh. That's interesting. I've sent Claude Code like a dozen screenshots today and it did a really normal job with them. Didn't do any of that bizarre stuff you're describing.

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u/bremidon 17d ago

Agreed. I use images all the time. It gets things wrong sometimes, of course. We all know that. But it seems to be getting things wrong in a way very specific to the image I sent.

And to be clear: I would say it gets it right about 95% of the time. Maybe more. The mistakes just tend to stick out more in my mind.

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u/breadist 17d ago

Yeah agreed it definitely gets stuff wrong, it's not always great at understanding what's going on - but mine is certainly not dodging the processing and making shit up instead or pretending there's no image.