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Warning: ChatGPT 4o vs DeepSeek R1 on a coding task was not even close

I spent last weekend testing both on the same task: building a simple booking system in Python. DeepSeek R1 got the whole thing working on the first try, while ChatGPT 4o left out half the error handling and needed 4 follow-ups to fix it. Has anyone else seen this big of a gap between the two for real projects?

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black.amy•1d ago

Warning: using a cheap AI writing assistant near a deadline backfired hard

I was in my office at home last Tuesday night trying to finish a client report for a marketing campaign. The deadline was 8 AM the next morning and I was running on maybe 3 hours of sleep. So I grabbed this low-cost AI tool I found online to help draft the final section. It sounded fine at first but I didn't double check the stats it generated. Turned out it completely made up a fake industry trend number about 47% growth in voice search adoption. My client called me out on it during the review meeting the next day. I had to apologize and redo the whole section from scratch using real data. Now I only use AI tools that let me verify sources or I just do the research myself. Has anyone else had an AI tool invent fake facts like that on you?

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