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2. PCalc's Origins: PCalc was initially a side project Thomson developed in his spare time while working at Apple. It started as a simple calculator but grew into a full- featured application over time. (Also completely untrue, I wrote the first version four years before Apple, and didn’t release an update until I’d left again)

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2. PCalc's Origins: PCalc was initially a side project Thomson developed in his spare time while working at Apple. It started as a simple calculator but grew into a full- featured application over time. (Also completely untrue, I wrote the first version four years before Apple, and didn’t release an update until I’d left again)
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James Thomson (jamesthomson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 19:45:30 JST James Thomson

Tried out the new and popular “Deepseek” LLM with my standard “tell me facts about the author of PCalc” query. At least half were misleading or straight up hallucinations. LLMs are not a suitable technology for looking up facts, and anybody who tells you otherwise is… probably trying to sell you a LLM.

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