[AI Help] Question: how to format duration with Intl without using experimental APIs?

[shadow-identity]

What is the issue with the answer?

Answer formatting is completely broken

How would you categorize this issue?

• The answer is harmful / unsafe.
• The answer is not correct.
• The answer is not helpful.
• The answer is outdated.

What did you ask?

1. how to format duration with Intl without using experimental APIs?

What did AI Help answer?

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For the most accurate and up-to-date information, please refer to the official MDN documentation and validate whether the Intl.DurationFormat has reached a stable stage or if any new APIs have been introduced to handle durations.

What MDN pages did AI Help consult?

• Intl.DurationFormat.prototype.format()
• Intl.DurationFormat
• Intl.DurationFormat() constructor
• Intl.DurationFormat.prototype.formatToParts()
• Intl.DurationFormat.prototype.resolvedOptions()

[caugner]

Hi @shadow-identity, 👋

Thank you for reporting this issue. It looks like a hiccup of our API, as I have never seen that before, and I cannot reproduce it either.

Two questions for you:

1. How often did you experience this issue?
2. If more than once, are you still experiencing this?

[shadow-identity]

Hi @caugner ,

1. Never had it neither before nor after, but at the day I reported the issue I had it several times.
2. Now it answers with a pretty formatted message "I'm sorry, but I can't answer questions outside web development." 🥴