But you agree that the knowledge base of existing answers is useful, no? That is what the islop searches and reproduces.
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
It’s not that developers are switching to AI tools it’s that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Most answers on SO are either from a doc page, are common patterns found in multiple books, or is mostly opinion-based. Most code AIs are significantly better at the first two without even being trained on SO (which I wouldn’t want anyway - SO really does suck nowadays)
Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Would you say the same about Wikipedia?
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ironic, they’re being closed as duplicate.