--- title: AI is a CRAPSHOOT: Is it Worth Driving or Walking? #shorts description: A short clip discussing the unreliability of LLMs when applying context across a conversation. The speaker illustrates the point with a simple example: telling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-a-crapshoot-is-it-worth-driving-or-walking-shorts-uslsyipdo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI is a CRAPSHOOT: Is it Worth Driving or Walking? #shorts | daily.dev og:description: A short clip discussing the unreliability of LLMs when applying context across a conversation. The speaker illustrates the point with a simple example: telling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-a-crapshoot-is-it-worth-driving-or-walking-shorts-uslsyipdo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uSlSyIPdO.png og:image:alt: AI is a CRAPSHOOT: Is it Worth Driving or Walking? #shorts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI is a CRAPSHOOT: Is it Worth Driving or Walking? #shorts **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short clip discussing the unreliability of LLMs when applying context across a conversation. The speaker illustrates the point with a simple example: telling an LLM you need to drive your car to a nearby dealership for an oil change, then asking whether it's worth driving or walking — to see how well the model reasons about context it was just given. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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