so i've been occasionally evaluating chatgpt performance on information extraction tasks that i find genuinely difficult and would like assistance in

yep, still garbage

i'm not sure what i expected

i think relying on chatgpt for information extraction tasks is borderline delusional; only in any way seemingly reasonable because search engines got progressively worse to the point where they're mostly noise

even then i prefer to get skilled in extracting what little value the noise has

(in the end i had to read Tcl's source code because the documentation was confusing and not entirely helpful; in the end I think it was accurate, but I could only be confident in what I understood after comparing it to the source. this is kind of miserable)
@whitequark Ah, the classical “the code is the documentation”.
@whitequark Or, in this case the only sufficiently clear documentation.
@whitequark Completely consistent with my experience with Tcl. And yeah that’s miserable, we know how to do better and have known for a long time.