"I don’t know why anyone would willingly submit more unpaid answers (or questions!) to Stack Exchange forums under these conditions. After all, huge pools of people in Africa and South America are being paid to write code examples for model-training companies right this minute. Why should I do it for free?" https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/closed-as-unhelpful-an-elegy-for #StackOverflow
@mike As the article says, Stack Overflow was finished, and companies rarely go quietly into that good night, they sell, sell, sell your data to the shite.
@john I don't really agree. LLM are much better at making an attempt to answer your question rather than coming back at you with gatekeeping. But they're not as good at actually giving correct answers.
@mike Depends how specific you were, but Stack Overflow was full of crap and out-of-date answers. The best answers on SA were obviously better than an LLM from a conceptual standpoint, but LLMs are giving you an okay answer for your specific situation (they won't usually tell you to rethink your entire approach, which is good and bad).
LLMs are also adaptive and iterative. The comparison isn't even close in my opinion.
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