Cooking with Claude(simonwillison.net)

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"the stall next to us sold excellent dried beans. I’ve never used dried beans before" seems contradictory. Would it not make more sense to read a book or even brief article about beans first? How can people develop such an interest in an LLM, which effectively just repeats what you say back, while completely ignoring the very principles of what they mean to accomplish?