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I love AI telling me to do things then telling me the way I did things is wrong because I'm the one who misunderstood how things work

and on it goes for like 4 hours when something technically should've taken 5 minutes to change, I just don't have domain knowledge in this language or ecosystem so I figured I'd save time by using AI like a naive user and I keep being babied by this thing accusing me of making the mistakes it's making like I'm the incompetent one

makes up methods existing, "THIS IS A COMMON MISCONCEPTION SO I KNOW WHY YOU DID IT". I didn't do it. you did. double check your fucking work. it's just giving me event names that don't exist. turns out the whole event system doesn't even function like it kept making up how it should function. that was about an hour down the drain because I told it to find all the events that do a specific thing and list them to me... then manually put them into the code (because it couldn't make me a list properly) only to find out those events never trigger in this version of the software (once I found the print command and actually checked). yet that was the solution it had offered to me earlier. that events existed. that you can listen to them. then it ofc made UP what the events were. so i asked it to double check if those events actually exist. sure, they exist. but turns out they never fire in this event handler in this version of the software. so an hour down the drain because this thing fails being a meta search engine now even. it gets shittier and shittier

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2 hours later:

... annnd turns out the solution / issue is AI literally just doesn't know how to work with lua. which isn't even a complicated language but I didn't want to have to learn the syntax myself out of laziness. it couldn't figure out variable scopes to make a basic bitch timer (despite insisting the only way to solve a bug (what's definitely a bug to me but it thinks is a feature...) was by making a timer). fucking really?

... and now that I had to get so involved in fixing this plugin I'm tempted to rewrite it and it be less retarded. but this is such a side quest. don't do it. you can. NOT DO IT. YOU CAN DO IT, BY NOT DOING IT. DONT DO IT

like why the hell isn't it saving your preferences... ew? that's not even hard to add, other than the data model the guy wrote for this tool won't fit it because he WROTE IT WRONG

WHEN PEOPLE WRITE THINGS WRONG I GET SO TRIGGERED. IT'S LIKE INTERNET ARGUMENTS

... I once dated a guy I didn't even like because he and the girl I was friends with did their relationship wrong. both were friends of mine and I had to listen to both of their private complaints about the other, kept offering them advice they wouldn't take... I KNEW BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY. I WAS SO FRUSTRATED. THEY WOULDNT TALK TO EACH OTHER EITHER. SUCH A DISASTER OF FUNCTIONALITY. that was the cringest thing I ever did. I just had to "fix" it T_T