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We were working on translations for Arabic and in the spec it said to use "Arabic numerals" for numbers. Our PM said that "according to ChatGPT that means we need to use Arabic script numbers, not Arabic numerals".

It took a lot of back-and-forths with her to convince her that the numbers she uses every day are "Arabic numerals". Even the author of the spec could barely convince her -- it took a meeting with the Arabic translators (several different ones) to finally do it. Think about that for a minute. People won't believe subject matter experts over an LLM.

We're cooked.

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The architect should have required Hindu numbers. Same result, but even more confusion.
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Man this is maddening.
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And the worst part is, these people don't even use the flagship thinking models, they use the default fast ones.
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