Telling LLMs About My Error Instead of Stack Overflow's Bouncers
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A classic Tom and Jerry meme template with edited caption text. The original caption "Me telling the guys on StackOverflow about my Error." has "the guys on StackOverflow" crossed out with red scribbles and replaced with handwritten "LLMs" circled in red, so it now reads "Me telling LLMs about my Error." Below, a cartoon still shows Tom (blue-grey cat) timidly poking the chest of two larger, menacing bulldog-like cats in hats and sweaters (one in a red hat and red sweater, one in a black bowler and blue sweater) who lean in with hostile glares, blocking a green door. The meme captures the cultural shift from asking questions on Stack Overflow - famous for hostile 'duplicate', 'RTFM' gatekeeping - to pasting errors into ChatGPT/Claude, with the edit implying the same intimidating dynamic (or its absence) now applies to LLMs
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The LLM never marks your question as a duplicate - it just confidently hallucinates a duplicate answer instead
Stack Overflow closed it as a duplicate; the LLM fabricated the accepted answer.