• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    I’ve been on SO like ten times altogether since ChatGPT came out. It’s so much nicer than the condescending pricks of Stack Overflow. My favourite is when some genius links a question as a duplicate of something that’s vaguely similar.

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      This question was already answered 10 years ago in a completely different version of the programming language to the one you’re using, and we know it doesn’t work anymore, in fact hasn’t for 8 years, but we’re going to close it anyway because screw you.

      Also you should be doing it in Rust anyway

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      The problem is that fewer people are generating the new content for gpt to slurp up.

      Free information stops working when people stop caring about creating it.

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        Yeah, I’ve thought about that as well. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna miss Stack Overflow specifically. Perhaps something better replaces it when AI gets poisoned by its own output too much.

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          I think not. The problem isn’t in a service, the problem is in people.

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            Sure, that’s why a good service doesn’t create an environment which supports people being dicks. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what SO does with the way it works.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      What do you ask ChatGPT? I rarely get a correct answer really, it’s all made-up bullshit usually.

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        I usually have good answers with only minimal bullshit when it comes to coding. If not, it at least points me in the right direction.