also, I'm curious what the last generation of models you used is and to what extent. blanket-level "hallucination" isn't really something I run into often anymore. inconsistencies or obfuscation, sure, but that's not the same.
Professionally, I'm forced to use CoPilot, which is so eager to please me that it's useless, and Claude which is fairly good at writing code but hallucinates data when I ask it to organize my notes.
Personally, I'm using Qwen, Phi, etc. to squeeze as much performance out of constrained hardware as possible. They're pretty good at searching my personal files which you mentioned in a previous comment.
