I was certain the AI was wrong.
In Google’s AI Studio, I was arguing with Gemini. It insisted the IINA player on my MacBook had an A-B loop feature. It told me to use keyboard shortcuts, to look in the menus.
But the app window was a blank slate. No menus. No icons. A right-click revealed nothing useful. It was a clean, borderless video player. My frustration mounted. I accused it of hallucinating. It repeated its instructions, unperturbed.
Days later, the error became clear. It was mine.
A Mac application’s menu is not in its window. It lives at the top of the screen, a permanent global bar. IINA’s settings were all there, exactly as the AI had said.
The AI was never wrong. It gave perfect instructions for a design paradigm I hadn’t yet grasped. I had mistaken my own unfamiliarity for its error. I owe Gemini an apology.