{"id":135,"date":"2025-06-15T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:44:35","slug":"sense-from-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/sense-from-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense from confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early in the process of developing Anapoly Online, our website, I asked ChatGPT to help me create a diary dashboard: a page acting as a central point for diary posts. Amongst other things, I wanted the page to let us select a tag and see only the posts thus tagged. I was unsure how to implement the filltering control this needed, so asked ChatGPT for a step by step guide. The AI confidently produced a&nbsp;procedure, and I put it into action. It soon became clear, however, that the procedure did not reflect the reality of the software I was using. ChatGPT tried to correct things in response to my complaints, but things simply became more confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When all else fails, I said to myself, read the documentation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The software&#8217;s documentation proved to be like the curate&#8217;s egg: good in parts. Soon, I was as muddled as ChatGPT had been, and it took me some trial and much error to work out the correct procedure for what I wanted to do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclusion: current AI can&#8217;t create sense out of confusion. That&#8217;s still a task for humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the process of developing Anapoly Online, our website, I asked ChatGPT to help me create a diary dashboard: a page acting as a central point for diary posts. Amongst other things, I wanted the page to let us select a tag and see only the posts thus tagged. I was unsure how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,10],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-didnt-work","tag-use-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}