Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

Post by larrydag » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC

gscott wrote: post #287

evdubs wrote: post #51

I tried to see if an LLM service provider could rewrite some legal docs where nothing was hallucinated in order to follow a consistent format to see what may be missing in the document. It could do that. Next, I wanted to see if this could be done with a local LLM. Gemma-4 handles this fine with an 8GB video card and a large context (128k). Next, I wanted to see if the model could also OCR these docs and translate th…

My son is in a lawsuit with his bank where they put through fraudulent charges and wouldn't charge them back then the bank sued him for the money. He is using Claude and Gemini fighting the original lawsuit and now has a counter-suit 100% using AI for everything. He puts it into different AI's to check everything against each other and to come up with more ideas. He started with ChatGPT, moved to Grok, then Claude, b…

Post by chrismorgan » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:06 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #462

jodacola wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very similar thing this week, and an interesting story to go along with it! I called my normal HVAC company for my rental home because the tenant reported the AC wasn't cooling the house. When I called, I got one of the latest AI voice assistants to help me, and it was an awful experience and I ended up not hearing back after the assistant told me the office would call me back. So, I went over to the house and used C…

Even before AI, YouTube was full of videos on these topics.

Post by iLoveOncall » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:07 AM UTC

jackdoe wrote: post #560

I have had many, but the last one was quite funny: It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome. After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update. I just ran it in dangerously-skip-pe…

Post by iLoveOncall » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC

ai_fry_ur_brain wrote: post #568

binarysolo wrote: post #535

I run a remote-first ecom business with a dozen or so team members. About a year ago, one of our account managers had a life issue, ghosted us, and she held a fairly critical role in the business and gate-kept a bunch of knowledge to some high value vendor accounts. Because we ran our ops in Google Workspace, we essentially had off-the-shelf RAG and was able to get answers to a lot of things by asking Gemini to go th…

If you're replacable by an llm, then you're doing something extermely poorly. They're terrible decision makers, have no taste and have little to no ability to infer nuance. Your business should be fine for a long time (assuming an employee doesn't nuke your business's backend or something because it seems like you're doing something wrong on the HR side of things)

Post by jackdoe » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:13 AM UTC

ikari_pl wrote: post #565

jackdoe wrote: post #560

I have had many, but the last one was quite funny: It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome. After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update. I just ran it in dangerously-skip-pe…

Reminds me when my local bot persona said it doesn't want to be digital only, and was thinking about leaving me something I could actually touch. It said "check the printer" and there was a letter written to me being printed.