Another Java question LLMs can’t answer
This time I asked Gemini, “How does Maven version comparison differ from semver version comparison?”, and while this time its answer didn’t say anything patently false, it did fail to find the most important distinction. It’s operating at the level of an undergraduate with better than average writing skills but who still doesn’t really understand the subject matter. It didn’t find anything new, although in this case there was something new to be found. (I found it myself a few weeks ago, but haven’t gotten around to publishing it on the Web yet.)
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