ChatGPT Hallucinates Non-Existent Rails Syntax

A programmer sought help from ChatGPT for dynamically preloading associations in Rails. ChatGPT confidently suggested invalid syntax – a syntax the programmer himself had proposed (and dismissed) two years prior on a Rails forum. This humorous incident highlights how even powerful LLMs can 'hallucinate' when dealing with niche topics and insufficient context, behaving much like a junior developer blindly copying and pasting code.