Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead

• AAA@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

  I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.

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  • INeedMana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    students

    When I was a student I despised the idea of typeless var in C#. Then a few years later at my day job I fully embraced C++ auto. I understand the frustration but unfortunately being wrong is part of learning

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.

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  • Mmagnusson@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use it to bounce ideas around with or get it to direct me in the right direction if I am stumped for further research, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I have it write more than the most gruntiest of grunt boilerplate code. It just can’t do it to a useful standard without a lot of oversight.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, it’s largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.

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