If you have 10,000 people flipping coins over and over, one person will be experiencing a streak of heads, another a streak of tails.

Which is to say, of a million people who just started playing with LLMs, a bunch of people will get hit or miss, while one guy is winning the neural net lottery and has the experience of the AI nailing every request, some poor bloke is trying to see what all the hype is about and cannot get one response that isn’t fully hallucinated garbage

Sure, but that doesn’t explain the volume of these complaints. I think the more likely answer is the pitiful sycophancy of some models as demonstrated in BSBench.