Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit’s mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow’s failure to address it’s promises and provide moderation tools
Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit’s mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow’s failure to address it’s promises and provide moderation tools
I think that one issue with using AI to help you solve programming problems is that sometimes it will wholesale make things up. Of course, people can do that too, which is why communities of coders can vote on the best answer. I say, more power to you, using the tools that work for you. Just be cautious.
The key with ChatGPT for me has been taken use it as an augmentation, not a gap fill. There’s some prerequisite knowledge required on my part. It’s a much more useful tool when it’s helping flesh out something I know, but have forgotten, or am familiar with, but not proficient. That means I find mistakes faster, and am less prone to having it loop or hallucinate. If I need to ask a question about something where I know very little or nothing at all, I’ll peek at a Wikipedia page or something first if I can.
I’ve asked the Bing one to look through some documentation for me before, and generally that seems to work out alright.
“Using [some package], how do I do X?”
Recently there was a Typescript thing I didn’t know how to do, and it was faster to ask the robot than dig through tons and tons of documentation. And I can still always double check (which I do).