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I tried giving it a link once to read through a PDF full of cars manufactured back in the 80s to find the cheapest ones. I gave me answers, but I was able to manually find some cheaper ones in the list. So at the end of the day, I couldn’t trust it any more than my own eyes. I think what I was asking was far more basic than writing code. Order the list by price (lowest to highest), and give me the top 5 results.

The PDF had multiple columns, and while ChatGPT seemed to figure that part out, it couldn’t do the logic part. Had it been in an easier Format to deal with, I would have just used to spreadsheet.



ChatGPT struggles mightily with the simple task of ordering the presidents by the year they were born. It got the order wrong, the years wrong and there were duplicates.

I had to explicitly tell it to verify its sources on the web and use Python

https://chatgpt.com/share/27ffea74-b3c0-478e-a6f4-3aca9e3e64...

Then I just changed the initial prompt

https://chatgpt.com/share/5f44924f-4b2c-4d26-92e2-cf3b398cf2...

“ Create a list of presidents with the first column being the year they were born and the second their name. Order the list by the first column.

Use Python and verify the ages on the web”




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