I am a firm believer in rubber ducky debugging, but AI is clearly better than the rubber duck. You don’t depend on either to do it for you, but as long as you have enough self-esteem to tell AI to stick it where the sun don’t shine when you know it’s wrong, it can help accelerate small tasks from a few hours down to a few minutes.
you never stated you use it as a last resort. you’re basically using ai as a rubber ducky
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 month ago
Mniot@programming.dev 1 month ago
More as an alternative to a search engine.
In my ideal world, StackOverflow would be a public good with a lot of funding and no ads/sponsorship.
Since that’s not the case, and everything is hopelessly polluted with ads and SEO, LLMs are momentarily a useful tool for getting results. Their info might be only 3/4 correct, but my search results are also trash. Who knows what people will do in a year when the LLMs have been eating each others slop and are also being stuffed with ads by their owners.
cheloxin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Just because they didn’t explicitly say the exact words you did doesn’t mean it wasn’t said
ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
trying to avoid something also doesnt mean that the thing youre avoiding is a last resort. so it wasnt said it implied and if you inferred that then i guess good job?