By @samleecole
Publication Date: 2026-03-09 14:12:00
When David saw his friend Michael’s social media post asking for a second opinion on a programming project, he offered to take a look.
“He sent me some code, but none of it made any sense, none of it ran correctly. Or if it did run, it didn’t do anything,” David told me. The names of David and his friend have been changed in this story to protect their privacy. “So I’m like, ‘What is this? Can you give me more context about it?’ And Michael says, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT a lot.'”
Michael then sent David thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversations, many of them lines of code that didn’t work. Interspersed throughout the ChatGPT code were considerations of spirituality and quantum physics, tetrahedral structures, basic particles, and multidimensional interactions. “It’s like ‘woo woo,'” David told me. “And we ended up having this interesting conversation about how do you know ChatGPT isn’t lying?”
As their conversation…
